We had been expecting to find lots of Stinkbugs, considering every classroom in our school seems to have tons of them! So far, though, not a single one has made it into our Malaise trap. Talking with the Grade 5s today, we thought maybe our trap wasn’t cozy and warm enough for them in the shady forest spot we chose.
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Lady Bugs on Day 3!
Today is a beautiful day. It is nice and sunny with a little breeze. Our Malaise Trap has been undisturbed so it is good to know that our location is secure. We have collected about 1 cm of bugs so far. We can see that many of them are ladybugs! We can see ladybugs crawling on the trap as well. -Kiera, Laura, Erika and Abigail
Father Scollen’s Malaise Trap Up an Running!
Hi everybody!
This is the class 5/4D at Father Scollen reporting in. Our trap is up and running as planned and we wanted to share our experiences so far.
Last week, before we set up the trap, everyone in our class wrote down five insects that they thought we might catch in our trap. Mr. Drew (our teacher) made a Wordle out of it. The larger words are words that came up the most in our estimates. You can check out the wordle, as it is attached to this post!
On Monday, the students here in our district unfortunately had the day off, as it was a professional development day for teachers. Because of this, our students didn’t get to see Mr. Drew fumble with all the poles and stakes while erecting our Malaise trap. It was a two person job for us, as our grade 3 teacher assisted him (and probably did all the work).
On Tuesday, may of us noticed the trap was set up as we were walking to school. The trap is located near the corner of the school and is visible from the sidewalk many of us take when we are walking to school. It reminded a lot of us of a camping tent. We had an awesome field trip that day in which we got to go to a real life wetland located right here in Calgary. As a result of the field trip though, we didn’t really have the opportunity to go out and look at the trap closely during class hours. Many of us did check it out for a closer look after school though.
Today (Wednesday) we finally were able to go out as a class to examine the trap, see how it works, as well as witness how many bugs we’ve captured in our bottle so far. We were all pleased to see that there is already quite a few creepy crawlies in our collection bottle. We estimated that there may be around 50-100 in there, but it is very difficult to tell.
We will be sure to check out the trap tomorrow around the same time to see how many more specimens have been caught and we’ll be sure to keep you updated.
Father Scollen 5/4D Over and Out!
Week One
It has been a few cool days in Yorkton and the insects are few and far between! The temperature highs have been 12 degrees, 7 then 8. Our total catch volume is maybe 6 little insects.
Day 3 of Patrick Fogarty’s Malaise Trap!
It’s day 3 of our School Malaise Trap Program we started at Patrick Fogarty Catholic Secondary School! We have already noticed some big and small bugs starting to be collected in our catching bottle. It has started out as cold mornings at about 8C everyday, but we end the afternoon with some warmer weather of about 21C and lots of sun! We are all excited to continue to watch our catch volume rise!
Blair Outdoor Education Centre
The Waterloo Region District School Board (Ontario) has 5 day-use Outdoor/Environmental Education Centres. Last year we had visits from over 1,000 classes, about 23,000 students.
We have traps at two of our OEE Centres this fall – here at Blair in Cambridge, and at Camp Heidelberg in Waterloo. I just wrote a post for our own blog, so rather than repeat the whole thing, here is a link http://outdooredguys.wordpress.com
We are having beautiful warm September days so there is lots of insect activity out in the fields. Hope everyone has a successful trapping season…
Success! Insects eager to bee (pun intended) a part of the study.
The Malaise trap is fully deployed at Elmvale District High School. The students here are a-buzz (pun fully intended) with curiosity and excitement. The weather is perfect for flying insects in Elmvale this week – lots of sun and warm temperatures during the day.
Our First day’s catch:
Note: We will stop with the puns now.
Students at EDHS set a trap… for science!
The students at Elmvale District High School are excited to be a part of the School Malaise Trap Program. Our rural high school is in Elmvale, a small town north of Barrie, ON. We are lucky enough to have a stretch of the Wye River meander through school property, found close to the headwaters of the river. The river ultimately passes though the Wye Marsh in Midland and enters Georgian Bay. Last year, students in the environmental science class began the Wye River Rehabilitation project. During the semester, the students cleaned out the river. The planted trees and shrubs to stabilize the river banks and add important trees to the riparian ecosystem. The students also planted wildflower and native grasses to help improve the biodiversity along the river.
This year, the Grade 11 Biology class has set up the Malaise trap in a field above the river. This area is frequented by flying insects that travel along the river. We are excited to see what the trap catches. We are eager to contribute to the scientific knowledge that be acquired from the project. We cannot wait to see what the University of Guelph does with our collected insects.
La Trappe Malaise a Cedardale
After much anticipation, Ecole Cedardale’s Grade 7 class deployed our trap on our school grounds. We got many questions from excited observers and had the opportunity to share what we have learned about BIO and the Malaise Trap with our school community!
Jackie’s Bug Blog
Today was our second day with the trap. There were lots of tiny bugs, and a couple of big ones. It was sunny today, but pretty cold. I saw a white spider, but I don’t know if it went into the trap. There’s a lot of grade threes and some Kindergartens who are interested in the trap. It’s really cool that our school got chosen to do the Malaise program!