The 7 inch diameter
star shaped Star of Bethlehem orchid from Madagascar, has an almost 12
inch long slender nectar tube. It takes a special moth, the hawkmoth.(moth
family Sphingidae, in the order Lepidoptera {butterflies and moths}).with
its 11 inch proboscis
to be attracted in order to do the pollenation.
Unlike butterflies, hawkmoths hover in the air while feeding at a flower,
similar to the actions of hummingbirds.
Under cold conditions, hawkmoths may quiver
flight muscles to generate heat before flying off. Known as thermoregulation,
this behavior is unusual in insects.....comprised
from information in.Smithsonian
Magazine.(si.edu),
April, 2000, 'Birds, Bees And Even Nectar Feeding Bats Do It' and Microsoft®
Encarta® Encyclopedia 99.
Bees see colors we don't.
We see colors they can't. Ants and bees can't see red. Hummingbirds like
red best.
"The oak toad uses its versatile
eyes to push food down its throat! It does this by moving its eyeballs
into the root of its mouth."....Discover
Magazine, December 99, page 96. Diversity
of design in eyes of animals is phenomenal!
How does the toad know which
way to go when in spring it emerges from its soil covered burrow in the
Earth?
How does it know what his
tongue is for? How's it able to identify its ability to shoot out his sticky
tongue so it can draw in the bugs it retrieves? How does the toad know
it's a terrestrial.(relating
to Earth or its inhabitants).being
when it was hatched in a pond?
Toads control
slugs
and grasshoppers and other bugs by eating them.
And oh!
the
wasp!
The turtle too! Just how
does it know after it hatches from its egg to immediately head to water
and how does it know where the water is, because it heads in that direction,
instead of heading inland and away from the water?
Insects:.Insects
have ultraviolet
vision enabling them to see special markings on flowers to guide them to
see deep inside the flower to the nectar wells, similar to how pilots use
runway lights to guide them upon descent. Insects are the only invertebrates
that fly.
Peahens:.Among
peahens the most attractive peacock types are the ones with the biggest
fans.(1,
2).
But the big fan on the tail makes it difficult to escape a predator. The
big fan peacock type of peahen has the least chance of survival. Is
this a problem for Darwin's idea of "survival of the.fittest"?
Why would evolution have evolved that which would tend to decrease chances
of survival? Why evolution is stupid.
Red Harvester and other
Ants.(Pogonomyrmex
barbatus):.How
did the inheritance of ant colony behavior evolve? What past conditions
contributed to this? Why do some colonies reproduce more than others? Why
does the behavior of ants in a colony, as well as how they relate to each
other, change as the colony grows older and larger? Why does a colony live
from ten to twenty years, yet single ants live only one year? Ant
colony behavior is extremely complex. Biologists admit a lack of understanding
here. Why does Creator-God
do things as He does?
Being in such close
quarters, ants have a way to ward.(keep
safe).off
disease. They make their own antiseptics.
Ants have many tasks that
they had to know from their beginning to survive. Tasks involving collecting
and distributing food, building a nest, care for the eggs, larvae and pupae,
knowing when to quickly repair the damaged nest, etc. And in all this,
task allocation continues to be a mystery...
The queen exercises no authority.
The workers 'somehow' know to switch tasks as needed, some foraging.(searching).for
food, others repairing the nest, etc., yet a different group may do these
functions another day. Ants do several tasks.."An
ant does not respond the same way every time to the same stimulus; nor
does a colony."....Deborah
M. Gordon, Professor of Biology at Stanford University. Her book is.Ants
At Work: How An Insect Society Is Organized. We do not understand behavior
here, in that, for one example, how they know to maintain 5 millimeters
of space allotted
per ant. They have some built in sense of density.
When a queen ant is separated
from her colony, the remaining worker ants will continue building fervently
according to plan. However, if the queen is killed, all work in the colony
stops. No ant will know what to do. Apparently, the queen transmits the
'building plans' even if far away, via the group consciousness with her
subjects. She can be as far away as she wants, as long as she is alive.
Everything is connected in the universe by the invisible
grid far below the atom.
The conundrum
is that ant behavior lacks identity and agency,
yet their overall behavior arises from interactions between these components.
Ants form huge colonies and exhibit a high organizational pattern. Where
does the information come from to build such elaborate nests? They seem
to utilize patterns that are intrinsic.
Why are their levels of activity
periodic? Sometimes the nest is quiet. Other times a flurry of activity
abounds. This activity is apart from their DNA and bespeaks
rules beyond individual ant actions:.Isaiah
40:26,28 "Lift up your eyes on high and behold who has created these
things, that brings out their host by number. He calls them all by names
by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power not one fails.
Have you not known? Have you not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord,
the Creator of the ends of the Earth, faints not, neither is weary? There
is no searching of his understanding.".There
are some things that we are forever trying to understand, like water.
Sterile worker class ants
pose another problem for evolution. That of the loss of reproductive potential
in most individuals of a species. The workers are the vast majority of
both ants, wasps, bees, etc. As Darwin himself said."it
posed a special difficulty which could prove fatal to his theory",
in that the structure of the workers would not be affected by natural
selection because they are sterile and produced no offspring.
Why
is it that any eggs left unfertilized develop into males?
Aphids:.Dying
aphids send an alarm signal to warn others about trouble. Other trouble
can be that of becoming a slave.
Aphids
got
antifreeze!
Dholes:.A
wild Asian dog with reddish fur and usually hunts in a pack. Although there
are several females in a pack.(up
to 25), only one female does all the
breeding and mostly from one male. Another conundrum
for evolution, as the
struggle for life and reproduction is dealt another blow.
It's a conundrum because
it's against evolutionary thinking being that, all the females should breed
as often as they could as thye would then produce enough so that strongest
would be there and perhaps have the greatest chance of survival to produce
even more stronger ones, thus improving the robustness
and ensuring continuance of them. Evolutionary thinking being that of survival
of the fittest and that of an end result being a master
race of them. Study more on natural history at naturalhistory.com
Spiders:."Without
spiders,
within 6 months most of our crops, trees and grasses would be gnawed to
their roots by unchecked hordes of locusts and other herbivorous
insects. While these are eating the plants, the numbers of disease carrying
mosquitoes, flies and ticks.(wingless
blood sucking insects or mites,
insects with 4 pairs of legs, etc. that infest {harmfully inhabit}, man,
cattle, sheep, etc.).would
increase exponentially
and would feed on us."....Kityn
Cayley, scientist of biodiversity at the American Museum of Natural History.
