Our school has been preparing for this project for some time now.   We have been working with an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside and a biology professor at Mt. San Jacinto College to learn to use the trap, sort the insects, ID the insects, and collect DNA from the insects since the beginning of the summer.  This School Malaise Trap Collection will be one part of a bigger project for us that we hope to publish in a journal eventually.

We started blogging about our adventures on a separate blog site.  As the project goes along, we will continue putting detailed blogs on the other site about our overall project and we’ll post updates about this specific part of the project on this blog.

Here is a link to our other blog: http://wcamalaisetrap.blogspot.com/

And here is a photo of our trap set up for this collection: