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ADAPTATIONS
ADAPTATIONS
Structural Adaptations
Structural adaptation are changes in somethings physical characteristics to help ensure it survives. Stick insects, including ours, as it says in the name, look like sticks, they do this so predators think they're sticks and don't eat them, this is an example of a structural adaptation.
Physiological Adaptations
A Physiological Adaptations is an internal change in an organism to ensure their survival. Female Cyclone Larry stick insects can reproduce asexually (they don't need a male to fertilize eggs to reproduce) this is a physiological adaptation, which increases the chance of stick insects surviving, if they can not find a mate.
Behavioural Adaptations
The way something acts to make sure it survives. Our Stick insects do this by "playing dead". They lay still and don't move so that predators think they are not alive.
Future survival of our insect
Future survival of our insect
We started off with total number of 20 insects but we now only have 18 of them left. We saw two of our insects not so active and very fragile, they eventually died. The reason we lost two of our insects was while collecting the leaves we didn't shake the leaves properly and didn't check them before putting it in the enclosure. Next week when we opened the enclosure to do all our measurements, Kate and Nikita found out that there was spider on the leaves and it probably killed the two of our insects. Since our insects died we've been very careful and been checking the leaves before we put them in the enclosure. Our insects are healthy and are growing fast, we are positive that our insects will survive for a year in the enclosure which is their their life spam. We've now found around 53 eggs and are looking forward for them to hatch. We've collected them in a plastic container, we wrapped the container with butcher paper and placed the eggs on the butcher paper and we spray some water so that the eggs are nice and fresh.
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