The world of insects - interactive workshops for Turkish students!
Each of the partner schools
has started a series of workshops related to the topic of our project “What's
up Mr. Bug?”
Despite the difficulties related to distance learning, the great biology teacher Mr. Erkan Urey managed to conduct extremely interesting classes for Turkish students. See the photo gallery and presentation introducing the world of insects.
WHAT’S UP MY BUG İNSECTS AS THE WONDER OF ECOSYSTEM
Benefits of Insects
The balance of nature depends on the activities of parasites and predators, the majority of which are species of insects. The insect ecology is the scientific study of how insects, individually or as a community, interact with the surrounding environment or ecosystem.
Insects play significant roles in the ecology of
the world due to their vast diversity of form, function and life-style; their
considerable biomass; and their interaction with plant life, other organisms
and the environment. Since they are the major contributor to biodiversity in
the majority of habitats, except in the sea, they accordingly play a variety of
extremely important ecological roles in the many functions of an eco-system.
Insects play crucial roles in ecosystem functioning as pollinators and insects
are often the first decomposers of dead plants and animals, and introduce
microorganisms that continue this process and release nutrients for new plant
growth.
Insects form an important part of the food chain, especially for entomophagous vertebrates such as many mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles. Insects play an important role in maintaining community structure and composition; in the case of animals by transmission of diseases, predation and parasitism, and in the case of plants, through phytophagy and by plant propagation through pollination and seed dispersal. From an anthropocentric point of view, insects compete with humans; they consume as much as 10% of the food produced by man and infect one in six humans with a pathogen.
None
of the terrestrial ecosystems could exist in their current form without
insects. Insects often have very specialized requirements, so each species is
typically found within a particular microsite, such as in the soil, under bark,
or along the underside leaf veins of a particular tree species. Each also has a
specific rhythm as to time of year and day when they are most active. Much of
the diversity of insects and plants in terrestrial ecosystems can be attributed
to the extensive interactions between these two groups, both through herbivory
and pollination. Insects are the major herbivores in most terrestrial
ecosystems, accounting for up to 80% of the total plant consumption in the
syste.
Tanacetum vulgare (tansy), Artemisia spp. (wormwood),
Urtica dioca (stinging nettle), Quassia amara and Picranea excels (bitter tree,
kavaska) are effective against sucking insects, especially aphids. and Ephestia
kuehniella). (Tunç and Erler, 2000) In the literature screening, red spider
(Tetranychus urticae), flour moth (Ephestia kuehniella) and aphid (Macrosiphum
rosae) were not found with tobacco juice.
