Mr Posgais Biology II Class Lab
Mr. Posgai's Biology II class often pondered the thought of insects'attraction to certain colors on flowers. Well, on September 14, 1999, we decided toexperiment and figure out which colors on flowers were more dominant overothers. Our Biology class divided up into groups of two and three people. Eachgroup took a different colored piece of poster board. One person in each groupapplied Tangle Trap to the twelve by nine inch area and stapled each board to apiece of lattice. We then took the lattice outside, about fifty feet from the schoolbuilding and left it outdoors for about forty-eight hours. When we retrieved ourlattice, 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'sBiology II class carried out an interesting experiment involving insects and their
Discussion/Conclusion After retrieving our lattice board from outside, and carefully counting overand 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 mostattracted to the colors of yellow and white. Also, you must take in to consideration when reading this conclusion that weonly made one trial. Theytook the ruler and marked off with the pencil, approximately a one inch border forhandling. With the way nature works, this process sounds to besimple; however, it is much more complicated and in a sense, more unbelievablethan you could ever imagine. Another factor may be that the group who was in charge ofthe purple poster board had to color a plain white piece. Although, thisdid not exactly match our hypothesis, the results were close. . These colors together almost are more than therest of the colors' insect amount combined. During a normal experiment, there should be more than onetest. A bird or insect flies or walks up into the flower toreach the pollen. There could also be many other factors which affected our results. After aboutforty-eight hours, they retrieved the lattice and each group took back their assignedcolor and counted the number of insects on it. As time moves o, that same bird and/or insect will move on tosomething else and carry the pollen with it.
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