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attraction to certain colors on flowers. Well, on September 14, 1999, we decided to
experiment and figure out which colors on flowers were more dominant over
others. Our Biology class divided up into groups of two and three people. Each
group took a different colored piece of poster board. One person in each group
applied Tangle Trap to the twelve by nine inch area and stapled each board to a
piece of lattice. We then took the lattice outside, about fifty feet from the school
building and left it outdoors for about forty-eight hours. When we retrieved our
lattice, we counted the number of insects on each board and proved our hypothesis,
that insects prefer yellow flowers and white flowers over the other colors, to be
During the week of September 13, through September 17, Mr. Posgai’s
Biology II class carried out an interesting experiment involving insects and their
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Discussion/Conclusion
After retrieving our lattice board from outside, and carefully counting over
and over, for reassurance, the total amount of insects on each piece of poster board,
and the different types, our class came to the final conclusion that yellow, white,
and red were the more dominant colors in this particular experiment.
Each group chose a 14” by 11” piece of poster board of a different color.
My class came up with the hypothesis that the insects would be most
attracted to the colors of yellow and white.
Also, you must take in to consideration when reading this conclusion that we
only made one trial. They
took the ruler and marked off with the pencil, approximately a one inch border for
handling. With the way nature works, this process sounds to be
simple; however, it is much more complicated and in a sense, more unbelievable
than you could ever imagine. Another factor may be that the group who was in charge of
the purple poster board had to color a plain white piece. Although, this
did not exactly match our hypothesis, the results were close.
. These colors together almost are more than the
rest of the colors’ insect amount combined. During a normal experiment, there should be more than one
test. A bird or insect flies or walks up into the flower to
reach the pollen.
There could also be many other factors which affected our results. After about
forty-eight hours, they retrieved the lattice and each group took back their assigned
color and counted the number of insects on it. As time moves o, that same bird and/or insect will move on to
something else and carry the pollen with it.
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