The frequency of fireflies flashing and the frequency of crickets chirping as a function of temperature follow. Source: Keith J. Laidler, “Unconventional applications of the Arrhenius law.” J. Chem. Educ., 5, 343 (1972). Copyright (c) 1972, American Chemical Society. Reprinted by permission.

The running speed of ants and the flight speed of honeybees as a function of temperature are given below. Source: B. Heinrich, The Hot-Blooded Insects, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993. For ants: For honeybees:

a. What do the firefly and cricket have in common? What are their differences?
b. What is the velocity of the honeybee at 40°C? At –5°C?
c. Nicolas wants to know if the bees, ants, crickets, and fireflies have anything in common. If so, what is it? You may also do a pair-wise comparison.
d. Would more data help clarify the relationships among frequency, speed, and temperature? If so, in what temperature should the data be obtained? Pick an insect, and explain how you would carry out the experiment to obtain more data. For an alternative to this problem, see CDP3-AB.
e. Data on the tenebrionid beetle whose body mass is 3.3 g show that it can push a 35-g ball of dung at 6.5 cm/s at 27°C, 13 cm/s at 37°C, and 18 cm/s at 40°C.
(i). How fast can it push dung at 41.5° C? Source: B. Heinrich. The Hot-Blooded Insects, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.

(ii). Use http://www.umich.edu/~scps/html/probsolv/strategy/cteq.htm to write three critical thinking questions and three creative questions.

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For fireflies: T (C) Flashes/min 21.0 25.00 30.0 9.0 12.16 16.2 For crickets: T (C) Chirps/min 14.2 20.3 27.0 80 126 200