Step 1. Make Drosophila culture medium First, to prepare a culture medium, four plastic vials were obtained and labeled with numbers 1 – 4. In each of the four vials, two teaspoons of medium mixture were added.…
The purpose of the lab was to observe the environmental impact on the behavior of pill bugs (Armadillidium vulgare) by using the steps of the scientific method. . We placed two pill bugs in an enclosed space and recorded the amount of time they spent in two categories of living spaces: hard rocks or soft sphagnum moss. Despite predicting that they would have a preference for a softer area, both pill bugs spent more of their time in the rocks than in the moss. This suggests that Armadillidium vulgare has a preference towards environments with hard surfaces over soft ones, possibly due to factors like light or surface area. However, certain experimental errors such as material density and poor handling may have skewed the accuracy of results.…
Bed bugs have similar engorgement characterizes as many other bugs when it comes to the sodium solution concentrations. When offered only water versus when a solution that contained phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), the later was what was found to be the situation where more engorgement occurred. It was expressed that mouthparts that bring about the acceptance of different concentrations of sodium chloride are receptors known as gustatory receptions. In the instances lower sodium was engorged and high sodium was rejected.…
The objective of the Isopods Lab was to figure out if the Pillbugs favored the wet environment or a dry environment. After reading the pre-lab report on Pillbugs, my hypothesis was that “If water is added to an Isopods environment, then the isopods will favor the wet environment.” By using two groups of Isopods, one group was put into a dry environment and the other had one drop of water into their dish. After ten minutes of observing the Isopods, the results showed that the Pill Bugs prefer the wet environment more. As time went on, the bugs in the wet environment survived longer than the Isopod in the dry environment.…
Problem: It is known that isopods have a preference for moisture. This lab will specifically test whether or not an additive will affect a pill bug's preference.…
This is because of the vibrations from the sound, which the bugs think could be predators, so they try to get as far away as possible. The classical music has less vibrations, so the pill bugs don't think it's a predator. If I had to do something different in my experiment I would do a few more trials with some things different. An example of this would be trying different volumes. Where I would go with this would be to see if this experiment would have the same effects on different types of insects.…
We hypothesized that the pill bugs would be more attracted to the higher acidic environment represented by hydrochloric acid as opposed to the lower acidic environment represented by sodium…
In addition, the pillbugs were influenced by each other and were prone to crawling on top of each other. They made several attempts to get out of the tray and had to be prodded back in the container. The slight tendency of the pillbugs to migrate to the lighted side may be because they believed that the light indicated an escape route. Lastly, our group had used a concentrated light source for the lighted side, like a flashlight, in the original procedure. It seemed reasonable to balance artificial darkness (the construction paper) with artificial light.…
Pill bugs name is woodlouse. Climate change will have an effect on animals, plants, and humans. With climate change rising many animals are going to get extinct in the future. Pill bugs are small animals that can live under rocks, and when you catch one they always tend to rolled up into a small ball. Their body temperature has to match with the environment that they live on.…
Instead a crayfish in cold water and a crayfish in room temperature were both calm the moment they were taken out of water, while the other two crayfish took their time with getting comfortable. Although the crayfish exhibits habituation, dishabituation,stimulus generalization and spontaneous recovery as its defense reflex, when stimulated with rapidly approaching targets (Glantz, R.,1974), it did not truly show if temperature had any significance to its behavior. These results tell me that temperature could have possibly not have any effect, however it does bring several other factors to the light. Some things that we missed while selecting the crayfish was gender, age and size. With the factor of size, being missed during this experiment, other researchers have found that size is directly related to behavior in both genders.…
The pill slider is a pill organizer that has a slide attached that transports the medication from one compartment to a final compartment. With a simple tug on a latch your medication falls into your hand through a secret compartment. There will be labels on their compartments to discern the days of the week. . This invention is to help people that are vision impaired and to show where their pills go without putting them in the wrong place. It also helps people who have arthritis, so instead of them having to open the container to get the pills the latch will help.…
Being proud of who you are is an important thing to live by. In the short story of The medicine bag by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve; Martin a boy with, native American roots, is surprised by his native American grandpa. The only problem is Martin is embarrassed of his grandpa and finds out that he must carry out the tradition of carrying the medicine bag. A brown leather bag that has been carried throughout the family and stored with important things. This story is interesting and brings many possible themes to a reader's mind.…
Physiological mechanisms of thermoregulation. In: Insect Thermoregulation, B. Heinrich (ed.), pp. 115-158, John Wiley and Sons, New York. Kingsolver, J. G., 1983. Thermoregulation and flight in Colias butterflies: elevational patterns and mechanistic limitations.…
We plan to have two chambers filled with seven Northern beans and 7 black beans. The chambers have four compartments and the beans were placed next to one another in order to make switching between the two chambers easier. We placed two males and four females in each chamber. The beetles were kept in their containers for seven days without and source of food or water. After this time, the amount of eggs on the beans were counted and recorded.…
They can adapt to variations of time periods of the order of one secondhand can be found close to the surface of the skin. In outdoor activities, the effects the sensors become more evident. Those sensors are responsible for detecting insects on skin. Some examples of slow adapting are the Merkel Disks and the Ruffini Organs. Being located mostly close…