Thursday morning, the 6M class went to visit the trap for their first time. With a high of 8°C, we still didn’t have much luck catching anything. We are still hopeful that the sunshine will encourage the bugs to visit our trap. Here are a few messages from the students:
Today for the first time, my class went to see the trap. I personally think the trap is in a good place to catch bugs but it would help if it got warmer outside.
-Raphaël 6M
Iona Academy, Eastern Ontario: Today we had to return our bottle of ethanol to our trap from week one because of the extended week. We did not move our trap’s location as we wanted to keep the same data as the previous week. The temperature today was a high of 12 degrees Celcius with a 10 percent chance of rain.
We also noticed that near our trap we got a visit from a large woodpecker! Look at his work. He is also trying to catch some insects! lol This week it has finally begun to warm up! So we hope to have more success in capturing the insects!!
Daily High Temperature
Cloud Coverage
Catch volume ( How many insects were found)
Notes ( Trap Disturbances )
Another cold and wet day , but our » bug catching » was not interrupted. We ended the week one on a positive note and collected more bugs than we had done all week. Good job Team (: !!
Daily High Temperature
Cloud coverage
Catch Volume ( How many insects were caught )
Notes ( Trap Disturbances)
Although the weather wasn’t very great we still managed to have a lot of bug activity around the trap. (:
Daily High Temperature
Cloud coverage
Catch volume ( How many bugs were captured )
Notes ( Trap Disturbances )
Over the weekend there was wind and a little bit of snow. This could have been the reason why our trap fell over. All of the pegs were ripped out of the ground and the whole trap fell down. We were lucky that we took the collection vessel out over the weekend!
St. Peter’s Grade 6 class
Unity, Sk
It’s very wet outside! A mixture of snow and rain, which means no bugs!
We are hoping for nice weather this week! 🙂
Week 1 was a tough one, but we’re ready for Week 2. Students are excited that the project will be extended by a week.
Today we went out to check the trap and noticed that there were a ton of bugs! When we were outside it seemed chilly and remembered that we are supposed to get snow tonight, so we are a little worried. Overall we’re all enjoying this project very much!
St. Peter’s Grade 6 class,
Unity, Sk
Iona Academy of Eastern Ontario:
Once again we set out to check how many insects we caught. Today we are up to 30 insects, mostly flies and a few moths!! The weather has only been a high of 4 Degrees Celcius with a 40 percent chance of a mix of snow and rain. We are hoping to get better weather next week to continue to catch more insects with success!
