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Happy Collecting! (Day 1)
Hello #bioSMTP participants!
Happy collecting on this first day of trap deployment! Several of you have been tweeting and blogging pictures and we are so glad that you have found the perfect locations for your Malaise traps! We encourage you and your class to take a “#SMTPselfie” with your trap as well as tell us about the weather in your area!
Don’t forget to start filling out the “Collection Records Spreadsheet“, as you will need to submit this document to us at the end of the program (hard or electronic copy).
Happy collecting!
What a great day at Cyril Varney Public School in Sudbury, Ontario
Hi everyone,
The Grade 2/3 class at Cyril Varney Public School in Sudbury, Ontario is excited to be a part of the Malaise Trap Program. We started off our day today by exploring all the living things in our school yard and then after about an hour, the students captured over 8 different types of insects. Shortly after their discoveries, we had a couple of the grade 6’s help put up the tent. They had fun too! The kids were so intrigued that they were going to spend the weekend looking for bugs in their own backyard. Many of them said they wanted to bring them in on Monday to show the class. We look forward to reading blogs from other schools!
Belleisle Regional High
Our trap has arrived and we are excited to start collecting!
Rothesay Park School ready to go :)
Our Malaise trap arrived today, and tomorrow the students will be here and ready to start learning! We’ll start seeing what they know about living things, then arthropods, before we start catching them 🙂
Notre piège Malaise est arrivé ce matin, et demain les élèves arriveront, prêts à apprendre! Nous allons faire une mise en commun de nos connaissances sur les êtres vivants et les arthropodes, avant de commencer à les attraper 🙂
Revelstoke, we’re collecting bugs!
Columbia Park Elementary will be participating in the School Malaise Trap program this year. Looking forward to sharing details with our staff and students and parents!
Pictures from Mayaguez, Puerto Rico!
Hello School Malaise Trap Program participants!
We thought you may be interested in seeing a few pictures of one of the Malaise traps participating in BIO’s Global Malaise Trap Program. The following pictures are of a Malaise trap deployed in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
This trap was deployed around the same time that you were collecting in your schoolyards. If you look closely, you can certainly see that the samples collected in this trap are very different from the ones collected in your traps.
That’s a Wrap!
Here is the difference 3 weeks made… Wow! Shania George and I (Meagan Kettley) had a blast keeping track of our findings, the bug tent, and our class. Here is a photoset of two pictures; one from the beginning and one from the end.
Here is a picture of our classmates packing up the tent. Sad faces all around as we packed up; the class really enjoyed checking for bugs everyday. It was an exciting class project.
Our class cannot wait to hear back about the project. We hope that some of the bugs we caught are unknown bugs or rare bugs in our area. We think that it would be interesting if we found a new type of bug in our area, and if we find any endangered bugs, then we would like to do something to protect them.
After two weeks of unfortunate weather, and an extra week to make up for it (thankfully week three had gorgeous weather!), we found a whole bunch of bugs!
Thank you for checking out our blog, and thank you to the School Malaise Trap Program for this incredible opportunity!
Wednesday May 5th The pond life
Since Monday it has been really warm (25 degrees in Eastern Ontario). We noticed that our insect count has lower dramatically since we put our trap near our pond. The insects are different such as mosquitoes, spiders, and smaller. We had lots of flies on the edge of the woods and now in the forest in the pond, only two. Hope to catch a few more before Friday!
Biodiversity around the trap
Today in Eastern Ontario, Iona Academy students participated in the Virtual Bio bus tour! We are pretty pump up about finding all the cool bugs that were described in the webinar.
Here is a view from our pond behind the school yard. Can you see our trap?
Today, as we were approaching the trap, we saw a little bird (chickadee) inside the trap. We we approached, it took off to fly, but kept hitting the net trying to escape! How cute that was:-) Too bad we never had our photographer near by!
On the other hand, we saw we caught more diversed bugs such as a bumble bee, spiders, lady bugs and others we did not know the name. Again more flies ( I guess it is because we are close by a dairy farm).
Weather was 15 degrees and partially cloudy. Very little wind!
Can you find a lady bug?