Category Archives: Fall 2016

Happy Day 1 of Collecting!

Dear #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 record spreadsheet“, as you will need to submit this document to us at the end of the program (hard or electronic copy).

Happy collecting!

SMTP Team

Inglewood School is Ready to Catch Some Insects!

Students from Inglewood School in Grand Bay Westfield begins setting up the Malaise Trap.
Students from Inglewood School in Grand Bay Westfield begins setting up the Malaise Trap.
Success! The trap looks so good we almost got stuck inside :)
Success! The trap looks so good we almost got stuck inside 🙂

It was a windy day at Inglewood School, but a little teamwork work goes a long way. Even as we were setting up the trap, a few flying insect found their way to the bottle attached to the trap so we must be doing something right.  We are looking forward to attaching the bottle on Monday and the anticipation of possibly catching a new species is pretty exciting.  Our only request is that you name the new insect after our School .

Who needs Pokemon Go when you have a Malaise Trap???

Kola School Set Up

We set up our trap today between the Home Ec hut and the main school. The maintenance people put up a snow fence to keep people away from the trap. Today the temperature is up to 22 degrees.

Our school habitat is grassy with not a lot of trees, but there is one big one by the Home Ec hut. It gets very cold here in the winter.

We hope the weather is good. We want it to be warm but a bit damp because we think we will get the most bugs that way.

Finally here!

Hello from Castle Oaks Public School! We’re getting ready to pitch out trap tent! Looking forward to a great catch.

Students had a great time predicting the types of insects that may end up in our trap. One student desperately wanted to pose a question to his classmates:

Q: Why do bees have sticky hair?

A: Because they have honeycombs!

6A is very excited about this project and are looking forward to a very successful two weeks!