"Gary K. benson"

Cockroaches are widely used in labs for physiological, behavioral, structural, and developmental studies.

Illustrate the structure, feeding habits, responses, and reproduction of a typical Anthozoan.

The nocturnal hermit crab uses “borrowed” shells to protect its relatively soft body, changing shells as it grows larger.

Camponotus. They are notorious for invading houses and destroying wood. Size: 1/4– 3/8".

Specially selected thin sections of important rock forming minerals. Set may contain more than one example of the same mineral to depict variations in occurrence and distinct mineral associations.

Slides (12); annite, biotite, clinochlore, fuschite, glauconite, lepidolite, margarite, muscovite, paragonite, phlogopite, sericite, zinnwaldite.

Brown, fluorescent crystals intergrown in dolomite rock.

Amphibole group; dark greenish black cleavages, somewhat columnar.

Amphibole group; black, coarse, massive.

Bright blue crystalline veins and coatings in a matrix of mixed copper ore.

Coarse-grained, with microcline, biotite and horblende phenocrysts.

Classic, very coarse-grained igneous texture.

Earthy, porous calcareous tufa.

Gray with line crinoid columnal fragments.

Light gray, earthy.

Light gray, with flow structure.

Gray, fine to medium-grained “Berea grit”.