JPCI’s Grade 11 Biology students have decided on the perfect location for our Malaise Trap…. the school garden! After a survey of the school grounds, the students voted unanimously that this location would likely have the highest insect traffic. The garden is currently being prepped for spring planting activities. Both the students and the PACT Grow to Learn program staff are « bugging » out with excitement to learn more about the insect diversity in the garden.
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Stay tuned for more photos on deployment day!
COUNT DOWN: 7 DAYS!
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Why do bees hum? Because they can’t remember the words.
How do snails fight each other? They slug it out.
Two flies are on the porch. Which one is an actor? The one on the screen!
This is one of the location where we will post our trap. Iona Academy has a beautiful pond in our backyard. This is where we studied our ecosystems this fall. We cannot wait to start and set up our Trap! We are so happy it is here!!! The snow is almost gone here in Eastern Ontario. Our forest only has a few patches of snow!!! lol
Here is a photo of the beautiful and snowy scenery here right by our school. This spot is where our trap will be located and where all the action will take place. We’re hoping the amount of trees here will attract some interesting bugs to share with you.
This is our Biology 11 class selfie. We’re standing on 3ft of snow, right where our trap will be. You can tell how excited we are for this big project by the smiles on all 29 of our faces (not even the whole class). The picture on the bottom is the class pretending we are bugs. We’re so pumped to start this project that we started BUGGING out in hopes to bring some goodluck our way.
The class BUGGING out
« The bug bloggers » posing on the tent location. The snow has taken over our trap’s location, but hopefully it’ll melt. We’ll be ready though because we have our lab coats and goggles on, ready to get the job done. The snow isn’t bringing us down! We are ready to get down to business and to get to some serious bug hunting.
The grade 5/6 students at Wellington Hall Academy are excited to begin the Malaise Trap process! If only Mother Nature would cooperate and the snow would stop!
The students are curious to see if there are any new species of insects to be found on the grounds.
Our Malaise trap is finally here at Shoal Lake School!!! Soon we will be able to test out this amazing project. We are happy to be a part of this program. It arrived on April 6/2015 and we can’t wait to put it up on the 20th. Our class is currently brainstorming ideas to inform the community and our school about this research program.
We are looking forward to getting started! We still have a great deal of snow here, so we are still waiting for that perfect spot for our Malaise Trap! Hoping to post a picture in the next couple of days after we do some shoveling 🙂
It is spring here in Burnaby B.C. The insects are arriving along with the tulips and cherry blossoms. Our grade 5/6 has just started a unit on Diversity of Life and are looking forward to catching and viewing insects. Today we picked a site for our trap. I originally had no idea it was going to be so large (I guess I didn’t do my research properly!). We are a little concerned that people will destroy it, as our school is in a urban setting surrounded by high-rises and a mall. We hope that it will be ok. We will educate all our students and ask that they let all our neighbours know that we are budding scientists and we need their help! We also just started blogging so we have lots to celebrate. Looking forward to it.
The School Malaise Trap Program swag has arrived and our team here at BIO is busy assembling each school’s program package (our office is full of boxes)! We hope to be sending out the program package to you by early next week!
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