Thursday, September 11, 2008

Sugary Survival Skill

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20080409/Note3.asp

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yo Miss G. this is Etta and Liz posting, we really liked the "Sugary Survival Skill" you should put on more articles like this one see u in class!!!!! :)

Etta&Liz

Anonymous said...

Incredible... I really think that this shows that heat is not the way to kill insects. I think that it's also interesting that they use SUGAR of all things instead of a protective shell. Wow...

Anonymous said...

I agree with Ryan that it is incredible for these animals to use sugar to protect themselves. It was also interesting that 70° Celsius (158° Fahrenheit) is when the larvae's absorption peaked and when your regular table sugar melts.

Anonymous said...

My bad!! It's interesting that they use sugar but they also do use a shell. I also agree with Alexis on the fact that it's really queer that the larvae's absorption peaked at 158 degrees farenheit, which is the temperature that table sugar melts. Interesting. Again.

Anonymous said...

Hi! That article was so interesting!
We liked the fact that some critters can live for up to 17 years without water! That is amazing! We love your blog! We never new there was so much science behind sugar!
See you in class!

Anonymous said...

That is sooooo interesting. I never knew that. WOW.It is incredible that heat actually kills animals. We didn't know flys could do that.

Anonymous said...

I think that it is amazing that in a drought for a whole season, an insect cam survive on a little sugar.

Anonymous said...

I think they could of said more

Anonymous said...

They definetly should have said more. Even though more information was needed, I sure would love to be able to live for 17 years without water.

Anonymous said...

I really do not want to be a bug or an animal. Poor things. Post more things about it. I don't really get it.

Anonymous said...

That is a weird thing to be able to do. Oh by the way that picture totally freaked me out.