Before conducting the experiment first me and my partners went about creating a plan. This means planning out which plots we will be extracting from and gathering materials. The only materials we truly used were sticky traps and some kind of pen and paper to document our data with. After preparing for the experiment we went out to the prairie to collect bug samples in each planned plot.  We picked 1 plot for each different type. We used plot one for seeded grass only, plot 15 for grass and forbs, and plot 11 for grass and 2x forbes. We put 2 sticky traps in each different plot type, and placed one sticky trap low to the ground and one higher up sticking to some kind of plant. Then our group waited 2 days before recollecting the traps and counting the amount of bugs on each trap. The sticky traps were 3 x 5. Then we graphed the number of bugs based on their status of low or high to the ground and which plot type they originated from. There was no specific way we counted the bugs but we counted each trap 3 times to be sure of our numbers. This is how we conducted our experiment.

(Ellie)

It shows on our graph that in plot #1 which was all grass, that we had the most bugs. There were 21 bugs on the trap we put on the ground and 18 on the one we put on higher grass. On plot #15 it shows we have the least amount of bugs, plot #15 is a grass + forbs plot. Plot #15 had 12 bugs on the sticky trap that was put on the ground and 8 bugs on the one we put on higher grass. Plot #11 was grass + forbs x2 and again the sticky trap on the ground had more bugs.  Overall in each plot we got more bugs on the sticky traps that we put on the ground rather than the ones we put up high.