Thank you to all who applied for this Spring’s 2015 version of the School Malaise Trap Program! This year, we received an overwhelming amount of applicants to the program (224 schools) from across Canada. We are thrilled with this response, and as such we hope to be able to increase the Fall 2015 program’s capacity to meet demand. It is because of your continued enthusiasm and support of the program that we have become so successful.
We are pleased to announce the following 64 schools and 6 reference sites have been accepted into the 2015 Spring School Malaise Trap Program. Congratulations to all!
2015 Spring School Malaise Trap Program Participants:
School
Province
École Agnes Davidson Elementary School
AB
Evergreen Elementary School
AB
J.H. Picard
AB
New Horizons School
AB
Slave Lake Koinonia Christian School
AB
Spruce View School
AB
Cameron Elementary School
BC
Charles Hays Secondary School
BC
Citadel Middle School
BC
Clearwater Secondary School
BC
Cortes Island School
BC
Departure Bay Elementary Eco School
BC
George M. Dawson Secondary School
BC
Merritt Secondary School
BC
Nukko Lake Elementary
BC
Queen Charlotte Secondary School
BC
Suncrest Elementary
BC
West Vancouver Secondary
BC
École Précieux-Sang
MB
Kleefeld School
MB
Landmark Collegiate
MB
Shoal Lake School
MB
Belleisle Regional High School
NB
Florenceville Middle School
NB
Petitcodiac Regional School
NB
Salisbury Middle School
NB
Baccalieu Collegiate
NL
Jakeman All Grade
NL
Random Island Academy
NL
St. Joseph’s All Grade School
NL
St. Matthew’s School
NL
Berwick and District School
NS
Bridgetown Regional High School
NS
Chedabucto Education Centre/ Guysborough Academy
NS
Evelyn Richardson Memorial Elementary School
NS
Northport Consolidated Elementary School
NS
Valley Elementary
NS
Chesterville Public School
ON
Craig Kielburger Secondary School
ON
East York Collegiate Institute
ON
Gary Allan High School
ON
Iona Academy
ON
John Polanyi Collegiate Institute
ON
Monarch Park Collegiate
ON
North Addington Education Centre
ON
Notre Dame Catholic School
ON
Oakridge Secondary School
ON
Russell Public School
ON
Scarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy
ON
Silverheights Public School
ON
Smiths Falls Collegiate institute
ON
Teeterville Public School
ON
Wellington Hall Academy
ON
Woburn C I
ON
Woburn C I (Eco Club)
ON
Zion Heights JHS
ON
Miscouche Consolidated School
PEI
M.C. Knoll Elementary School
SK
St. Peter’s School
Sk
Vanscoy School
SK
Whitewood School
SK
Yellow Grass School
SK
J. V. Clark School
YT
Jack Hulland Elementary
YT
Reference Site
Province
Mount Moresby Adventure Camp
BC
The Riverwood Conservancy
ON
Camp Heildelberg Nature Centre
ON
Blair Outdoor and Environmental Education Centre
ON
Bluewater Outdoor Education Centre
ON
Toronto Botanical Gardens
ON
Thank you to all who applied and congratulations to our selected participants!
Today the School Malaise Trap Program team decided to start a new trend…taking a selfie with your Malaise trap! We are also offering a prize to classes who enter a selfie (yup, you can enter more than one)! 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! Further prize details to come.
St. Ignatius of Loyola Catholic School is excited to report that over 16 organisms were caught in the Malaise Trap today! New additions include: a bee, a small grasshopper, quite a few black flies, and mosquitoes. Take a look:
Hello there, my name is Alex and I am from Jack Chambers Public School. My class and I were pleased today to go out to our Malaise Trap to find many bugs captured. A classmate and I also witnessed an insect fly into the trap when we were out this morning. We’re very lucky to have the Malaise Trap where it is at the moment. It is about a minute walk from our school, and is located by a pond just off the boundaries of our school yard. We’ve gone out every day for the past 3 days. We plan to continue to go out everyday for as long as we have the Malaise Trap. Even though today was our third day going out we have only captured a days worth of insects due to our epic fail (our bottle fell off during the first day). We will make sure to get more bugs especially with the new bottle that we’re getting. Thank you for the cool trap!
Great set up yesterday, however we have very few insects collected. The set up is on a grass patch near the classroom. Students predict that we will not get much insect collection at this site due to the lack of vegetation.
The trap at St. Charles College in Sudbury is up, running and visible from my classroom. Unfortunately for us, though, the weather became unseasonably cold and wet for the past few days. We have a few insects in the trap at this point, but not many. However, we are supposed to be in for some warm sunny weather for the remainder of the week; hopefully we get a lot more in the way of insects.
One thing I think would be useful would be clear plastic collection bottles. That way we could see what types of insects are actually in the bottle.
Language Arts – Each student chose an insect common in Ontario and learned everything there was to know about that bug. They presented their info orally and in Microsoft Powerpoint.
Students are extra excited to look for their bug in the trap and in the field 🙂
