Scientific name:Pediastrum boryanum
There are over 20,000 varieties of algae.
Algae are usually found in marine or freshwater environments.
Algae produces oxygen which is used by other aquatic life.
Algae ia also used at a form of medicine and food by humans
Algae are important in many food chains acting as the primary producer of organic matter.
In some areas of indian ocean,the sea surface lights up at night. it is so bright that one can read a book.
Algae are used in many wastewater treatment facilities, to reduce the need of harmful chemicals.
Algae are used in some power plants to reduce carbon dioxide emission.
ORGANISM
BUTTERFLY
Scientific Name: Artogeia (Pieris) rapae
There are over 25,000 species of butterflies.
The only continent where butterflies have not been found is Antartica.
After bees,butterflies are the second leading pollinators.
Most butterflies usually only live for 2 to 3 weeks.
Butterflies can only fly if their body temperature is over 86 degrees.
A butterfly's antennas,palps and legs have tiny receptors that are used to smell.
Butterflies can only see red,green and yellow.
Butterflies don't eat, they drink with their proboscis.(straw-like structure)
Butterflies do not have lungs, they breathe through openings in their abdoments called Spiracles.
Worm
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Worms are invertebrates. They have a long, soft body and no back bone or legs! They do not have a brain but do have a nerve centre, called a ganglia. They do not have eyes but are sensitive to light. Worms either move by stretching and contracting their muscles or only move using the movement of other creatures. Worms come in all sorts of sizes from tiny little thin things to very big ones. There are hundreds of thousands of species of worms and about 2,700 are earth worms.
Frog
Scientific name: Ranahexadactyla
Frogs absorb water through their skin therefore, they don't need to drink.
Frogs can lay as many as 4,000 eggs in frogspawn.
The eyes and nose of a frog are on top of its head so it can breathe and see when most of its body is under the water.
Frogs have long back legs and webbed feet for jumping and swimming.
Certain frogs can jump up to 20 times their own body length in a single leap.
Frogs usually eat meat (bugs and worms) and swallow their food whole.
The world's biggest frog is the goliath frog from Cameroon in West Africa. Their body can be one-foot long.
The smallest frogs in the world are less than half-an-inch long.
In the Seychelles, there is a male frog that carries its young around on its back until they become adults.
People who study frogs and toads are called herpetologists. Herpetology is the study of amphibians and reptiles.
Frog bones form a new ring every year when the frog is hibernating. Scientists can count these rings to discover the age of the frog.
Amphibians' eyes come in all shapes and sizes. Some even have square or heart shaped pupils. But amphibians don't see colour -- they only see in black or white.
Many of the most brightly coloured tropical frogs are coloured in this way to warn predators that they are poisonous.
- Ants
- Scientific Name:Camponotus pennsylvanicus
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Suborder: | Apocrita |
| Superfamily: | Vespoidea |
| Family: | Formicidae |
The average life span of an ant is 45 to 60 days.
The ant has very strong legs which help it to run very quickly.
Ants appear in shades of green, red, brown, yellow, blue or purple.
An ant is able to lift about 20 times its own body weight.
Adult ants are unable to swallow solid food. They depend on the juice they are able to squeeze out from pieces of food.
An ant uses its antenna for touch as well as smell.
Ants normally range from 2 to 7 mm in length. The carpenter ant is an exception to the rule, as it can stretch to 2 cm, or even an inch.
There is at least one queen in each ant colony.
An ant has two stomachs, in one stomach it stores food for itself and in the other it stores food that is to be shared with other ants.
An ant has the largest brain amongst insects. It is said that the processing power in an ant's brain and a Macintosh II computer might be similar.
Some ants are able to sleep seven hours a day.
Ants are mostly omnivorous, that is, they eat other insects, seeds, oils and bread. Queen ants are provided with wings at birth, they lose these wings after they fly off to start new colonies.
Snail Eggs
Scientific Name: Cornu aspersum
Snails cannot hear.
It is the fastest of all the different species of snails with a top speed of 65 feet an hour.
It is very rare to find a snail whose shell coils to the left.
Snails will die if their shells are removed as their organs will dry out.
In the olden days a broth was made of their mucus and given to treat sore throats.
The act of mating lasts for anywhere between three to eight hours.As we all know garden snails are served up as escargot and May 24th is National Escargot Day.
Snails will die if their shells are removed as their organs will dry out.
In the olden days a broth was made of their mucus and given to treat sore throats.
The act of mating lasts for anywhere between three to eight hours.As we all know garden snails are served up as escargot and May 24th is National Escargot Day.
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