By imitating the toxic animal, the other animal may keep from being eaten. A classification of animals with exoskeletons and shells. Univalve and bivalve snails and clams are examples. Insects that are the second step of many food chains in the Everglades. Only the female bites, and a drop of blood gives her enough protein to make 200 to 400 eggs.
Males eat nectar in flowers.
There are forty-seven different kinds of mosquitoes in the park, but only thirteen bite humans. Also called gambusia. They eat aquatic invertebrates, including mosquito larvae. Resources found in our natural environment. An intermediate, aquatic stage between egg and adult insects.