Last day with our Malaise Trap!
Final collection day at Landmark Collegiate
Today it was 6 degrees outside, the coldest day this week. The rest of the week has been sunny and around 20. The ticks, flies and bees were beginning to reveal themselves around here. Today was also the last day of the collection experiment so we took down the Malaise trap. Our jar was quite full of bugs having all shapes and sizes inside!
Our trap was placed beside trees and weeds to attract the most bugs possible. Our school yard is unique because it literally has nothing on it besides a couple of baseball backstops. Our town used to be a swamp which must have contained lots and lots of bugs but today it is dry and we currently have a fire ban in place.
I wonder how the biologists will sort out all the bugs because some of them are extremely small or in pieces. I also wonder how they will put our data to good use.
I find it kinda funny that some Alberta schools were getting snow. I’m thankful that I live here in Manitoba where the weather has been fairly stable and nice.
– Alain
Our final catch for week 3 – (not quite as much as weeks 1 &2)
Coming to an end :(
Here is some of the students patiently waiting for some bugs to fly in, in hopes for a successful final week with the bug trap.
Here is some of our bugs in the bottle! Hooray! Finally we had a beautiful end of the week with our tent, being luckier than ever!
And now its sadly come to an end. Time to pack it up and move it out!This is a student getting ready having final moments with the tent while packing up.
Pictures from St. Matthew’s School in NL
Hello,
Here are a few pictures from St. Matthew’s School!
I Tawt I Taw an Awtropoda Twap
I did, I did taw an awtropoda twap!
Hey Petri! You’re just “winging” this selfie thing, eh!
Does this thing dispense bird seeds?
You wanna talk about the birds AND the bees?
A selfie inside a selfie.
I look better from the side. Do my cheeks look green?
Petri the Green Cheek Conure (Pyrrhura molinae) and the Grade 11’s @ John Polanyi CI want to thank BIO for the great opportunity to study the arthropod diversity on our school grounds. Though we are sad to see the trap go, we are excited to get the results in a few short weeks.
Hope we win the selfie contest!
Tweet out 😉
The Trap Came Down :(
It was a cold, and somber afternoon. Students were sad that it was time to take the Malaise trap down. Fed Ex will be here in the morning. Mrs. Muir thought with the freezing temperatures for this evening that it would not make much of a difference.
This was a great few weeks. We look forward to getting our results back and that of the others from Canada’s participating schools.
And now some bad luck…
Over the weekend our trap was vandalized again. This time all the pegs were stolen and one of the poles were broken. Mrs. Kendrick had to dig through her garage to find the pegs that go with her inflatable Christmas decoration so that we could set up again. We taped the pole back together with duct tape and a stick for stability, but it’s not nearly as good as it was. It is up and working though and we’ve caught a weird red bug. We can’t wait to see what it is!
St. Peter’s grade 6 class, Unity, Sk.
we caught a bee!!!
Big black and yellow floating in our trap with three legs and one wing… a bumble bee!!! Our caution reasearch tape fell off and theres a lot of litter around our trap. On the good side though we have a lot of bugs, especially flies. We have been having lots of good luck.
May 1st
St. Peter’s grade 6 class, Unity, Sk
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!
News from J.H.P. this morning
Edmonton is covered with snow this morning. No bugs . the trap is under snow.
