Who Are We?

Ivan Cullen as the Documenter, Rian Carlsten as the Visual lead, Veronica Parker as the Research lead.

Background: Prairies are ecosystems that are considered part of temperate grasslands, savannahs, and shrublands. The FSHS prairie consists of many factors that make up a prairie. Our group was trying to find out how many bugs and species were in specific plots. We had caught a lot of species in our glue traps. There was like a bunch of bee looking things and stray fur from what was probably a rabbit that got away or something.

Most prairies would be full of life and stuff but the FSHS prairie is way smaller than most. Ours is what you call a dry prairie. Not really any water, dry soil, dry tall grass. Most species found there consist of many deer, birds, etcetera. It was like 40 degrees when we went though and everything was probably hibernating or something.

Conclusion: Our group researched how many insects were in the different types of plots on the prairie. Based on our data, we found out that plot type does seem to affect insect amounts. In the seeded grass only there were 8 bugs on our 2 of the glue traps we placed. In the grass there were 14, 15 in grass 2x forb.

I think these results occurred because all the insects like the flowers and the extra variety of vegetation. We could have placed more glue traps to have more data. What are the most common forms of bugs are in the different plots.