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No rose grower need be told about the phenomenal rate of aphid reproduction. It may however surprise them that this is largely accomplished without male aphid intervention.
During the summer months, without benefit of mating, female aphids produce vast quantities of unfertilised eggs. These develop within the mother, who each day gives birth to 20-odd exact replicas of herself, each with their own eggs already maturing inside them. And each of these is the mother of a further generation of females.
In this way aphid populations expand rapidly. There are no males to take up food and space, and the females need not spend time mating. Every aphid reproduces and only cold weather, a predator such as a ladybird or a food short-age - or an insecticide - can stop them. Within days, the descendants of a single aphid can smother a rose bush.
In autumn, the pattern changes, and both male and female offspring are produced. This generation mates, laying fertilised eggs that spend the winter in crevices. The eggs hatch in spring, producing only females - and the cycle begins all over again.
Aphids owe their success to their dual method of reproduction. In the asexual phase, all individuals contribute to the next generation, while the sexual mode mixes and therefore refreshes the genes.
Oak gall wasps also reproduce by both methods. Having spent two winters encased in small galls, or swellings, on the roots of oak tress, wingless female surface and scramble up the trees to lay eggs in the buds. These females have not mated, and therefore reproduce asexually. The oak trees' tissues react by producing another gall that encases the eggs. By mid-summer its occupants are mature and winged, and fly into the world to find a mate.
Inseminated females burrow into the soil to lay single eggs in the roots of oak trees. There again galls are formed, from each of which, two years later, a wingless female emerges to climb up the tree and restart the cycle.
Females insects that need no males
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The Antarctic blizzard rages and howls, blanketing the landscape in lifeless snow. Offshore, below the ice, in the dark of the bitterly cold water, a fish moves slowly across the seabed. The icefish is long and scaleless, with a snout like a duck's bill and strange white gills that give it its name.
Life in the freezing waters around Antarctica demands very unusual adaptations. Only about 120 species of fish manage to survive there, out of a world total of around 20,000 fish species. Of the 17 species of icefish known to man, most are between 450 and 600 mm (1.5 and 2 ft) long. and are bottom-dwellers that prey on smaller fish and crustaceans.
The icefish is unique. It is the only vertebrate in the world that has no haemoglobin, the red oxygen-carrying pigment that gives our blood its colour. Although the amount of oxygen it can dissolve in its blood plasma is very small, the absorption of oxygen by its tissues is unusually efficient. And since the icefish has no red blood cells, its translucent, yellowish blood is thin, and is easily pumped round the body. Its heart is large, as are its blood vessels, so the icefish maintains good circulation, despite expending less energy than a red-blooded fish.
Scientists think that Antarctic fish, including the icefish, have another important weapon against the freezing waters - natural antifreeze. Chemicals called glycopeptides that circulate in their blood seem to prevent the formation of ice crystals in their body fluids.
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The idea of the wedding ring as a symbol of love is relatively modern. The ring was originally regarded as both a down payment on the bride and a sign to other men that she was no longer available. It was, in effect, a 'property sold' sign. Even the word 'wed' comes from the Anglo-Saxon term for a security given in order to bind a promise.
The ancient Hindus were among the first to use wedding rings, and the tradition was exported to the West by the Greeks and Romans. The ring remained a 'property sold' sign until the 9th century, when the Christian Church adopted it as a symbol of fidelity.
It is hardly surprising that to lose, break or remove such a powerful symbol was thought to have dire consequences. In parts of Scotland there is a belief that if a woman loses her ring she will also lose her man. If the ring is dropped at the wedding ceremony and it rolls away from the altar, this is a terrible omen. And if the ring ends up on a gravestone, one of the newlyweds faces an early death - the victim is determined by the sex of the person buried in the grave.
The choice of the ring finger is also connected with various myths. The fourth finger of the left hand was chosen by the ancient Greeks and Romans as they mistakenly believed that a vein ran directly from it to the heart. That a woman's ring is generally, but by no means universally, worn on the left hand, stems from the belief that this was the weak hand, symbolising woman's submission to man.
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At a time when spiralling crime graph is a matter of concern for the Uttar Pradesh -a province of India - Police, a small village on the Bhadohi - Varanasi Road here has set a record of sorts by not reporting even a single case of crime in the past 50 years.Residents of Chandi-Sona village leave their houses unlocked while going out or even during nights.According to Chauri police station, about two km from the village, there is little to worry about the village having a population of about 1500, as no case has been reported from there in the past over 50 years.Village head (Gram Pradhan in Hindi) Chinta Devi said, "There is absolute Ram Rajya in the village where people of different castes and creeds live in peace and tranquility."The only concern for us is to guard our belongings from stray animals," Chinta Devi said, adding all residents were by and large dependent on agriculture and happy with their lives.The villagers thank the Gram Devi (village goddess) installed just outside the village for the peace prevailing in Chandi-Sona.Seventy-year old Shitla Prasad of the village claim that, "Once thieves, who had struck at some houses kept moving about the village all through the night but failed to find the way out and were nabbed in the morning".
To make life easier, mankind has invented scissors for shearing, rods for fishing, pliers for gripping, sieves for filtering, pots for storing, hypodermic syringes for injecting, nutcrackers for opening shells. But in these, as in so many matters, other forms of life had found similar solutions ages before.
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