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CMS — Vancouver Weather Ruins Everything.
Today we went back to Vancouver weather. Rain, rain and more rain! How exciting! Now the bugs are a lot smarter than us and didn’t come outside today. Except for a few lonely ants. 
Not to mention that most of the flowers have closed their petals to protect precious pollen. The dandelion (Taraxacum) seeds have all drooped down from the weight of the water, and all the leaves and grasses have been coated with hundreds of glittering beads as well. At this stage, there were a few dandelions that had spread their seeds, but some of them were in the middle of blossoming. Just like the dandelions, the tree leaves have drooped down, and on the leaves there are evidence of bugs (Little holes everywhere).
Normally the anthill, full of activity is devoid of any life. It seems like the bugs have all of the sudden disappeared from the face of the Earth. We only saw a few ants (Formicidae) scuttling from one anthill to the next. The birds weren’t out either, not even the crows dared fly in this wet weather.
The rain was by no means heavy, but just relentlessly drizzling. Surprisingly, the worms were somehow satisfied with living underground, 
and not coming up for fresh air, which they normally do. So today wasn’t the most productive day in terms of finding animals, but at least we’ll always have the plant life there.
CMS Flora Fauna
High of 20 today. The weather was really rainy. It was really wet. 100 % cloud coverage. We saw few ants but anthills were mostly inactive. The flower head dandelions were all closed today and the puffball dandelions all looked weird and like they were made of plastic. Last week we saw 5 or 6 bugs. 1 flying the rest on the ground. We caught around 40-50 bugs. Mainly very small bugs under a cm long. Some bugs were larger like mosquitos.
By: Carter Phillips, Noel Illing
CMS- Week 2 Day 1 Enviroment
- 12 degrees C
- 100% cloudy
- 87% humidity
- 12% Percipitation
Today, it was slightly foggy so that we couldn’t see the trees far away. While we were walking with our teacher, she asked us why the dandelions were closed. She pointed out that this was because
CMS – Environment – April 27, 2015
Weather
During the process of setting up our bug tent, it was rainy and overcast–typical spring weather for Port Coquitlam. The weather was humid and the visibility was low; there was a thin fog in our area. Detailed information about the weather today can be seen below.
It is currently 12ºC at 1100hrs
Wind: N 1km/h
Humidity: 95%
Pressure: 102.6 kPa
Visibility: 8.0 km
Ceiling: 2300 feet (Very Low)
Estimated precipitation over next 36 hours: 5-10mm
The current weather is overcast with occasional showers. The sky, as viewed from our classroom, is currently completely covered by clouds.
Geography/Nearby ecosystems
The climate in Port Coquitlam is a maritime temperate climate, which is characterized by frequent precipitation and mild temperatures. It rained periodically during our process of setting up the malaise trap.
There are two rivers near our school, which are the Pitt River and the Fraser River, with the former being the closest. There is also a patch of temperate rainforest near the trap.
The above image was taken from our classroom’s window. You can see that there are numerous large trees nearby, and that the weather is overcast.