Classification challenge

• Animalia Kingdom (means its an animal)
• Arthopoda Phylum ( means it has an exoskeleton and jointed feet.) 
• Insecta Class (group of insects that have a 3 part body)
• Hymenoptera Order ( means heavy wings)
• Family Vespidae
• genus Microstigmus
• Species hymenopteran

Cricket Investigation

          We want to know if the crickets would prefer to eat fruit or vegetable. My hypothesis is that the crickets would prefer the fruit because its sweeter.Crickets ears are located on the knees of their front legs. Crickets can see different directions at the same time. Also crickets in the wild have a life san of less than a year. Female crickets do not chirp. Male crickets cause the chirping sound by rubbing his left wing against the upper edge of his right wing. 

experiment setup 

experimental data

     I set up the tank by placing cut up apple on one corner of the tank and  cut up celery in the opposite corner. Then we placed the cricket in the middle and saw were it went. 
     In the data part i followed were the cricket was going in the tank. 
     I can infer that my hypothesis was right because even though the cricket didn't stay on apples it was there longest. It would go to the celery but just come back to the apple so I can see that it prefers the apple more that the celery.                 

TWIS #6

            This week in science we worked on a dichotomous keys. On the 7th we did two different ways of asking dichotomous questions. We were trying yo figure out what flavor jelly belly's we had. The two different ways were the flow chart style and the list style. Also on monday we worked on a project to see if crickets like damp or dry surface by watching and timing what they did.


To the left is a picture of a dichotomous key example.

            I learned this week how to do a dichotomous key the list style. I always thought it would be complicated and I have seen it done before but i never actually tried it. Also i learned that crickets seem to becalm insects and don't really move much unless they feel danger. I had an aha moment when we did the flow chart because i realized how easy it really was.

TWIS #5

            This week in science we made a small rocket for a warm up and then started towards the bigger project. We finished the rocket challenge experiment. I didn't really think they would fly as far as they did. My IV was if the shape of the wings would change the distance and it did. The one with the thin long fins flew further and the one with the fat wings didn't go as far. Also we re-did the marshmallow challenge and even though we had already done it we still didn't finish it good. After that we studied crickets and made sketches of them.

            I learned this week that crickets can eat each other. Im still curious about how big crickets can actually grow but I am not convinced that the picture there can be real.