I got busy yesterday and forgot to do my observations. I left the house only once - to go to the dumpster and get the mail - but kept myself busy all day long. That helps to make the days go faster.
- Mini-habitat #1 Yes, we have nymphs in this bag too. There are still many clutches in the cotton, but now we have little milkweed bugs all over the habitat.
- Mini-habitat #2 There are nymphs all over the bag. The clutch in the food netting has not hatched yet. (See picture to the right)
- Mini-habitat #3 Nothing happening here. Just one live bug left. I’m gong to put it in with the extras.
- Mini-habitat #4 Lots of clutches and now we have nymphs. (see picture below, right)
- Mini-habitat #5 We do have clutches now.
- Mini-habitat #6 Today is the day I move this single milkweed bug into the extras bag.
- Mini-habitat #7 I wonder if, somehow, we got two males or two females in this bag. I can’t get a good enough look to tell. Still no clutches and no mating.
- Mini-habitat - Nymphs - There is absolutely nothing alive in this bag. I am going to salvage so parts of the habitat and discard the rest.
- Mini-habitat - Extras - I think we have two dead adult milkweed bugs in this habitat. There are lots of nymphs and I think they are bigger than when I last did an observation - three days ago.
More observations to come on Monday, April 6th
Also, I created a new remind group for anonymous texting. Please join the remind group below and comment on today’s observations.
Contact information:
Remind: text @497h7k to 81010
Email: mmckellar@lowell.k12.ma.us
So will we now be down to 5 observation bags and the extras? Since two bags only have 1 bug and no activity, and the nymph bag has no life?
ReplyDeleteI am coming back to mention, this is Tyler L. Realized later that my posts were coming up anonymous for some reason.
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