Thanks to the completion of the St. Michael Warrior Outdoor Classroom last year, we have the perfect spot for our Malaise Trap!
It’s going to be sunny and warm for the next week, but temperatures are dipping to 2C overnight….here’s hoping the insects stay warm!
Today was an exciting day! The grade 9 science students at HDCH toured the school property looking for the perfect location for our Malaise Trap. The groups submitted proposals – we can’t wait to see whose proposal wins.
Trap is up – lots of fun fiddling with the loops and lines 🙂 Took longer than I am willing to admit for an avid camper to figure out this special tent!
Bottles are prepared and ready in the office to be added to the Trap come first thing Monday morning. Excitement (and flying insects) is in the air!
Stayner Collegiate Students having fun setting up the trap!
Hello #bioSMTP participants!
We are approaching trap deployment; Sept. 21st is just around the corner! Please remember to set up your trap and have the first collection bottle ready to go on Monday morning (Sept. 21). We encourage you to set up your trap tomorrow so that come Monday morning, all you will have to do is screw in the week 1 bottle and make trap observations (store bottle lid in a place you will remember!).
Report Catch Volume
Recall that we ask you to let us know at the end of the first week how your trap is doing. We will send out another reminder, but please send us an email indicating your catch volume on Friday, Sept. 26th.
Collection Bottle Send-off
Please have your collection bottles and Malaise trap packed and ready to be sent via FedEx on Monday, Oct. 5th. Please arrange a package pick-up time with FedEx for this date. Further details will follow.
Don’t forget to keep up the great blogging work! We encourage you and your class to take a picture with your Malaise trap (#SMTPselfie) once it has been set up as well as tell us about your schoolyard habitats. Please feel free to blog, tweet, or add these pictures/comments to our FaceBook page.
If there are any questions please let us know. We are here to assist you at every step along the way and there will be more reminder emails to come!
Happy Collecting!
School Malaise Trap Program Team
Hello everyone!
Ever since our Malaise trap parcel arrived on September 9th, we have been really excited to start this project!
This week (September 14-17th), we have been learning about scientific classification of living beings in Biology 30 so that we can classify some of the critters that we catch during our time with this project.
Preeceville is located in east central Saskatchewan, one hour north of Yorkton (hello M.C. Knoll!!). We are very fortunate to be in an area that is very biologically diverse. Our town is in a parkland transition between the boreal forest and the prairie. Our nearby lakes are « pit stops » for many migratory bird species.
We are planning to deploy our Malaise trap on the southern shore of Annie Laurie Lake near the bird trails and beach which are marked in light yellow on the map below. This is about a ten minute walk from our school.
Permission has been received by our town to place the trap on town land. We will be choosing a place off the trails in the bush so that it is out of the way.
Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this project! We are looking forward to having the chance to contribute and learn from this process.
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Found this guy while looking for a location for our trap!
We were talking about how milkweed is so important for monarch butterflies. While I pointed the plant out to my students, we discovered this one having an afternoon snack!
Our perfect place is visible from our outdoor classroom and close to the lake and wetlands. Easily roped off from the play area, we are excited to see what we can catch!
Once again, the School Malaise Trap Program team is continuing one of their favorite program trends…taking a selfie with the Malaise trap! We encourage all classes to participate and post your #SMTPselfie on our blog or tweet at us (@SMTP_Canada). You can also email us your selfie and we will post it on your behalf. Once a class has submitted their selfie, they will be entered into a draw for one of our prizes (yes, you can enter more than one selfie!)! Further contest/prize details to come.
Check out our #SMTPselfie below!
Last week at 9:37 AM AST we opened the box!