Here is the 6S class, excited to start collecting for our third week!
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After two weeks…
Not too many insects after two weeks. There are a few spiders in there. Does having a lot of spiders around mean we would have less flying insects? Or does it mean there must be lots of other insects around to feed the spiders? Hoping for a good week 3!
Hello from West Vancouver
Hello World!
We are an IB Biology 11 class located in West Vancouver, right on the west coast of the pacific ocean. Our Malaise trap will be set up right in our school’s backyard, 10 min away from the beach and twenty minutes below the tree line of Cypress mountain. This unique environment is home to many interesting animals, and with the help of out Malaise trap, we might even discover a whole new species! (written by Jana Rankov, Gr. 11)
Week 3
So far everything is turning out just great! We put in the third bottle. I hope we catch more bugs. Blogger:Taylor
week 2 summary
So we had cloudy weather for almost all of the week 2/extended week 1 including some stormy conditions (40-60 km winds for several of the days)… the weekend was sunny though!
Lots of small bugs in there (100’s) but no where near the 1line marker. The one very interesting thing is something that looks like a caterpillar and or a large larvae… will be interested to see what that comes out as … can’t quite figure how it got into the jar but once we know what it is, maybe its locomotion will be clearer…..
Anyway, that’s all from the north end of Haida Gwaii……
Found a bunch of ‘snailers’ on the school’s little skiff today…. get it?…. snails hiding on a boat…
Hooray for Week 3!
We are so excited to be collecting again. We can hardly wait until 11 when we go out to check the trap!
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End of week two.
On Monday night we had very heavy winds and the trap blew down. Thankfully, we tied one of the guy lines to a large log so we didn’t lose the tent. The catch bottle became detached from the top bottle, however, we neglected to remove the inner seal so we didn’t lose anything as the small flies were trapped in the top bottle. We have had rain for the rest of the week so there hasn’t been much insect activity but the student’s are still eager to check the trap.
We are looking forward to a better week next week 🙂
Last day of extended week 1! Interesting find
Well we had such an exciting week. We must have close to 100 insects in our bottle. But the highlight was today when our teacher came to school, she brought this giant insect. it was in the back pick up of her truck. She lives 5 minutes away from school. The kids wanted to send it to BIO for identification. What a creepy insect. We have never seen this before!
This is an interesting find!! We will try to research its name this week.
Week 2 : Friday May 1st
Daily Temperature
- 7 Degrees(am) { consistent weather}
Cloud Coverage
- Slightly cloudy with slight peeks of sun.
Catch Volume ( How many Bugs were found)
- The bug activity has exceeded our expectations , when we first started our bug activity was very slow and we would only advance by a mere 10 bugs and now we have almost reached 100.
Notes (Trap disturbances)
What a great way to end off our second week , we have advanced in our bug activity and almost reached 100 bugs , good job !
Week 2 : Thursday April 30th
Daily Temperature
- 8 Degrees (am)
Cloud Coverage 
- Today we experienced mild cloud coverage but during the day the sun began to peek out from behind those clouds.
Catch volume(How many bugs were caught)
- we discovered 72 bugs today.
Notes ( Trap disturbances)
We had a slight break in our bug activity , but we are slowly getting back on track.