IMPORTANCE OF FLIES TO LIFE

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> That moment you are eating in an exposed place and the next thing is viam... a fly just perched on your food.<br /> <br /> Flies; one of the living organisms I hate most. Their presence alone irritate me. I always know them for their disadvantages and never saw anything good in them. I often classify them as the worst enemy to man's health because of their frequent visit to wastes.<br /> <br /> With that said, they're therefore vector of different diseases such as typhoid fever and cholera (housefly), trypanosomiasis; caused by a protozoan called trypanosome carried by tsetse fly and the list continues...<br /> <br /> Of what importance are houseflies? Are they created to deplete life or for inconvenience sake?<br /> I asked myself for I know that nature has made everything to be in harmony; beneficial to life it consist either in terms of feeding relationship or otherwise.<br /> <br /> To which organism is housefly a prey to?<br /> What role has it to play to life?<br /> <br /> "This housefly is actually gutted" I said to myself bewildered after making several gestures to scare off one that was just staring at me if not reckoning me.<br /> <br /> On closer observation, I noticed that my poor enemy looking fresh with eyes opened has no life in it.<br /> Whaaaaat!!! I exclaimed.<br /> "Which fluid feeder must have done this" I asked myself when the poor thing just turned to powder from my touch.<br /> <br /> Spider- a predator to housefly I figured out after some days.<br /> Housefly contributes to food chain, that's now obvious. Is that all?<br /> I found this study interesting now. <br /> <br /> Waste visitor, apart from taking toxic substances from waste, what else do they (houseflies) do to wastes.<br /> Funny enough each waste product they visit decays there after.<br /> Damn it!!! Houseflies are also decomposers through the larvae they bear.<br /> <br /> Here they play the greatest role one can ever think of.<br /> <br /> - Recycling of nutrients which brings about life indefinite.<br /> <br /> -Getting ride of dead organisms which would've made the environment disgustful, think about it if all dead things remain on earth surface.<br /> <br /> -Enrichment of soil nutrients which brings about adequate growth of plants we eat.<br /> <br /> - Release of carbon to the atmosphere which plants use during photosynthesis through decay of dead organism.<br /> <br /> ...So, whenever you see them busy on waste or dead things, know they're carrying out their divine assignment. <br /> <br /> NOTE: Houseflies are not the only decomposers.</div> </div>

IMPORTANCE OF FLIES TO LIFE

That moment you are eating in an exposed place and the next thing is viam... a fly just perched on your food. Flies; one of the living organisms I hate most. Their presence alone irritate me. I alw…

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WHY DO TREES SHED THEIR LEAVES DURING WINTER?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> Being at a lower class back then in college is an experience one has to live up with. Fascinating, thrilling and also terrifying in sense that you always have to be<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqfpj-Yzs6YNK3y5Qi6hsoNl2pQJgAyfP0rmQhNW8655H1Axfpy8Uc6vdUO4gHVaKy9KpyHvakfKw80PbKbfZ-ZwFU1QUES3nub0uJvGATODVSoCu28S3SEQcOGmbPJD_NTAmw6Mu2XCo/s1600/tmp_Why-do-trees-shed-their-leaves665515312.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqfpj-Yzs6YNK3y5Qi6hsoNl2pQJgAyfP0rmQhNW8655H1Axfpy8Uc6vdUO4gHVaKy9KpyHvakfKw80PbKbfZ-ZwFU1QUES3nub0uJvGATODVSoCu28S3SEQcOGmbPJD_NTAmw6Mu2XCo/s1600/tmp_Why-do-trees-shed-their-leaves665515312.jpeg" width="216" /></a></div> pushed around by those in higher form.<br /> <br /> One of the most challenging period then and will continue to be is returning back to school from the Xmas holiday.<br /> <br /> The school compound is messed-up by heaps of dry-shed leaves laying here and there.<br /> Of course you know whose responsibility to clear them - 'the junior students '.<br /> To get that done quickly, the senior students' services is employed.<br /> <br /> With sweat all over my body while working under the sun and dirt stocked-in in my fingers... for we were provided with crude or no tools at all; I would yell at the trees, " for goodness sake, why can't you hold on to your leaves".<br /> <br /> "WHY DO TREES SHED THEIR LEAFS" I wondered. This I keep on wondering till am advanced in class. Damn it! The trees respond to stimuli. <br /> <br /> During the winter, they try to save the little water that they can find. And to minimize loss of water to the atmosphere, they shed their leaves. Trees loose water through their leaves(stomata)<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqfpj-Yzs6YNK3y5Qi6hsoNl2pQJgAyfP0rmQhNW8655H1Axfpy8Uc6vdUO4gHVaKy9KpyHvakfKw80PbKbfZ-ZwFU1QUES3nub0uJvGATODVSoCu28S3SEQcOGmbPJD_NTAmw6Mu2XCo/s1600/tmp_Why-do-trees-shed-their-leaves665515312.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqfpj-Yzs6YNK3y5Qi6hsoNl2pQJgAyfP0rmQhNW8655H1Axfpy8Uc6vdUO4gHVaKy9KpyHvakfKw80PbKbfZ-ZwFU1QUES3nub0uJvGATODVSoCu28S3SEQcOGmbPJD_NTAmw6Mu2XCo/s1600/tmp_Why-do-trees-shed-their-leaves665515312.jpeg" width="216" /></a></div> by a process known as transpiration.</div> </div>

WHY DO TREES SHED THEIR LEAVES DURING WINTER?

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A DAY ON MERCURY EQUALS 58 EARTH DAYS

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> A day on any planet is considered to be a full rotation. We’re used to this rotation taking around twenty-four hours and so it seems bizarre to think<br /> of spending a day on Mercury, whose rotation lasts for nearly sixty Earth days. We’d be waiting a long, long time for morning to come. <br /> <br /> (Funnily enough, we can experience a rather similar phenomenon by traveling to Antarctica, where the sun stays below the horizon for the whole winter.)<br /> <br /> Due to Mercury’s orbit around the sun, a year on that planet is the equivalent of around eighty-eight Earth days—which means that on Mercury, there are less than two days in a year<br /> <br /> But that’s not all: due to the planet’s strange orbit, the sun actually seems to travel backwards and forwards in the sky.</div> </div>

A DAY ON MERCURY EQUALS 58 EARTH DAYS

A day on any planet is considered to be a full rotation. We’re used to this rotation taking around twenty-four hours and so it seems bizarre to think of spending a day on Mercury, whose rotation last…

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