Pill Bug Experiment Lab Report

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First, in order for this experiment to be conducted, a test chamber was needed to act as the place where the experiment happened. First, the premier action that had to done was to move the pill bugs from their artificial habit to the test chamber by using a stick or a paint brush to carefully move them onto a petri dish, repeated for each of the pill bugs that had been used in the experiment. Then, simultaneously, filter papers were placed on each spot of the two areas, one staying dry and the other absorbing water from pipette, therefore, effectively becoming damp and moist compared to the dry one. Then, spontaneously, the pill bugs were released into the middle area between the two spots, thus, having an equal chance of going either way,

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