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Background Information
The Free State Prairie was grown "out of a desire to connect people with their natural environment ". It is a manmade prairie with 18 different boxes (plots) with three different types of plots. There are grass, grass and forbes, and grass and 2x forbes. There are six of each type and and in a diagonal pattern. It was made by Julie Swarting and Helen Alexander with students in 2014. We examined all six of each type of plot throughout three days. We decided to find out how many bugs were in each plot over the course of three days and compare the different types of plots.
We truly only had one method for collection data, this method had us walking around each plot that we choses collection method. Then a person would walk into the plot and diagonally both ways. We tried to find as many bugs as we could while we were walking and around in the plots. The method worked really well for us because we found bugs in every plot we looked at.
Methods
Methods
This is an arial map of the prairie
This is our data of how many bugs were in the three different types of plots.
Conclusion
Each day the weather around the prairie got warmer and warmer resulting in more bugs each day. We counted every bug we saw in each of the plots except for the common house fly. This was to get more accurate results as the flies were very hard to count and collect. The forbes both times played a big part in the increase of bugs along with the weather. The average of all of the plots was 6.72 bugs per plot.
Our post prairie summery
We went to each plot of grass, grass and forbes, grass 2x forbes and looked for bugs that we could see with our eyes. So we found out that the more plants the more bugs that are in each plot and more. We could've missed bugs or missed counted but I think we did a good job. We truly only had one method for collection data, this method had us walking around each plot that we choses collection method. Then a person would walk into the plot and diagonally both ways. We tried to find as many bugs as we could while we were walking and around in the plots. The method worked really well for us because we found bugs in every plot we looked at.
Biblography
Biblography
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