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Solifugae is an order of arachnids known variously as solifuges, sun spiders, camel spiders, and wind scorpions. The order includes more than 1,000 described species in about 147 genera . Despite the common names, they are neither true scorpions (order Scorpiones) nor true spiders (order Araneae ).
Water is the medium of the oceans, the medium which carries all the substances and elements involved in the marine biogeochemical cycles. Water as found in nature almost always includes dissolved substances, so water has been described as the "universal solvent" for its ability to dissolve so many substances.
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Leafcutter ants are any of at least 55 species [1] [2] [3] of leaf-chewing ants belonging to the three genera Atta, Acromyrmex, and Amoimyrmex, within the tribe Attini. [4] These species of tropical, fungus-growing ants are all endemic to South and Central America, Mexico, and parts of the southern United States. [5]
Mites have two sexes. Their five-stage life cycle is as follows: Females lay eggs in the host lung, and then the eggs hatch in 8–12 days as six-legged larva in the lungs of hosts and undergo three nymph stages. The whole life cycle can take place in 20 days under ideal conditions. Eggs do not hatch while the host is hibernating.
Diagram showing the alternation of generations between a diploid sporophyte (bottom) and a haploid gametophyte (top) A sporophyte (/ ˈ s p ɔːr. ə ˌ f aɪ t /) is the diploid multicellular stage in the life cycle of a plant or alga which produces asexual spores.
Water mites in a mat of floating algae Two water mites feeding on the larva of a chironomid [2] Hydrachnidia , also known as " water mites ", Hydrachnidiae , Hydracarina or Hydrachnellae , are among the most abundant and diverse groups of benthic arthropods, composed of 6,000 described species from 57 families. [ 3 ]
[3] [4] The fly oviposits in dead kelp that washes up on beaches. [8] This is the only place it lays eggs, and it can do so on many species of kelp and seaweed, [9] including species of Laminaria and Fucus. [10] A female fly lays up to five clutches of 80 eggs each. [11] The larvae feed upon the bacteria coating the dead kelp. [9]