Monday, 23 February 2015

Species

                                          Earth Worms



Family: Lumbricidae
Genus: Lumbricus
Species: Lumbricus terrestris or Lumricus rubella


Some of this examples from other families are:

1. The rosy-tipped worm, Aporrectodea rosea, is awidespread and can be found in the topsoil in most habitats. The typical size of an adult is 5cm. 



   2.  The compost worm, Eisenia veneta, is usually found in garden compost but can also occur in wet, decaying leaf litter, organic-rich soil and manure heaps. It eats rotting vegetables.


 3. The little tree worm, Satchellius mammalis, is widespread in many habitats, from woodlands and field margins to marshy habitats and river banks, but seldom abundant. It lives in leaf litter.




I believe that earthworms were brought onto Saipan from he Europeans when Ferdinand Magellan came to Saipan looking for Spice Island, since then Europeans had been coming in and out of Saipan for supplies and people.
I honestly can't find any information about where it came from, but for all I know that Europeans are the ones that basically brought the earthworms in every places.



REFERENCES:

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/897947
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/other-invertebrates/earthworm-slideshow/index.html?utm_source=youtube-earthworms-short-url&utm_medium=youtube-earthworms-short-url&utm_campaign=youtube-earthworms-short-url
http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/earthworm.htm
http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/invasives/terrestrialanimals/earthworms/index.html


This is a green worm, has a wide distribution and is often the most numerous earthworm in all, but the most acid habitat.




The first earthworms probably arrived with soils and plants brought from Europe. Ships traveling to North America used rocks and soil as ballast which they dumped on shore as they adjusted the ballast weight of the ship. During the late 1800's and early 1900's many European settlers imported European plants that likely had earthworms or earthworm cocoons (egg cases) in their soils. More recently, the widespread use of earthworms as fishing bait has spread them to more remote areas of the state. All common bait worms are non-native species, including those sold as "night crawlers," "Canadian crawlers," "leaf worms," or "angle worms."


That is basically the whole explanation of where earthworms came from.






Friday, 13 February 2015

Site Desciption

Instagram, is a worldwide net where you can share your pictures, videos, and social networking. It's like Facebook, Flick, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. Instagram was created on 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. The maximum duration for instagram videos are 15 seconds. Instagram was created for a reason, selfies :). The reason why i chose this site is because it's popular and it's easy for me to access. You can find instagram basically anywhere, your friends phones, the television, internet, and even T-shirts, or the easiest way, is just open your Google Chrome and type, Instagram.com. There are a lot of things going on in Instagram. I actually don't know any since I don't have an account, but I sure do know that a lot of people uses it. There are a lot of living things that people posts in instagram, people:), birds, and plants. The non-living things that they post are houses, buildings, and cars, etc. Those are basically the top six things that people posts about, I think. Like I said, no account here, so I don't know anything about it, but if do get one, I'll sure post a lot of creatures. Birds are my favorite winged creature, because it defies their beauty in it. A non-living thing that I would post is a building, because it's pretty. Picture it, edit it, and let's see what kind of beauty relies on it, but we all surely know, that in every picture, it holds its own beauty, it doesn't really need an edit to be beautiful in our eyes.              




MEANING OF INSTAGRAM: When the sentence "do I care" no longer exists. Be yourself, post all what you want, and don't give a thing about what people say, because no matter who you are, you're beautiful in everyone's eyes.