Beetles, a group of insects are part of Coleopteran Order, they can be easily identified because of their dark colored body. Beetles mostly live in hot, cold, dry, or moist condition and because the Great Basin is the home of arid climate beetles can be easily found. Many of their food sources come from leaves, seeds, fruits, or dead wood. However, if beetles have good diets and potentially find other food sources they could benefit their population growth (Arbogast, et al. 2010). Beetles can migrate from different places and adapt change quickly because of population growth.
The roles of Beetles in our ecosystem are very helpful, they are the ones, who recycle dung, making a positive purpose which Beetles place the dung in the soil that nourishes the Earth (Waldbauer 2003). Beetles also are the ones, reducing the amount of weed seeds in the soil. Farmers can benefit from this to ensure healthy soil in farming and that the control of weeds can also improve food security. …show more content…
Some beetles are attracted to the smell of floral fragrance (Adler and Theis 2012) but for male beetles they response more on the cadaver odor (Ayasse et al. 2012). But why the difference in smell? Do most beetles prefer more of the cadaver odor? My group wants to answer these questions by conducting an experiment. Cadaver odor has a similar smell of formaldehyde and since cadaver odor attracts male beetles my group can propose that beetles are also attracted to the smell of formaldehyde. However, studies have not yet proven if beetles do attract formaldehyde, which is why my group is interested in doing this experiment. Our purpose is that we want to attract Coleoptera using formaldehyde. We predict that if beetles are attracted to formaldehyde, then the pitfall trap with formaldehyde will have more Coleoptera than the control
The roles of Beetles in our ecosystem are very helpful, they are the ones, who recycle dung, making a positive purpose which Beetles place the dung in the soil that nourishes the Earth (Waldbauer 2003). Beetles also are the ones, reducing the amount of weed seeds in the soil. Farmers can benefit from this to ensure healthy soil in farming and that the control of weeds can also improve food security. …show more content…
Some beetles are attracted to the smell of floral fragrance (Adler and Theis 2012) but for male beetles they response more on the cadaver odor (Ayasse et al. 2012). But why the difference in smell? Do most beetles prefer more of the cadaver odor? My group wants to answer these questions by conducting an experiment. Cadaver odor has a similar smell of formaldehyde and since cadaver odor attracts male beetles my group can propose that beetles are also attracted to the smell of formaldehyde. However, studies have not yet proven if beetles do attract formaldehyde, which is why my group is interested in doing this experiment. Our purpose is that we want to attract Coleoptera using formaldehyde. We predict that if beetles are attracted to formaldehyde, then the pitfall trap with formaldehyde will have more Coleoptera than the control