Due to some stormy weather last week we are conducting two experiments this week, making for a crazy field schedule. Chelsea is in the midst of her second lady beetle egg experiment. To conduct this, she places eggs of native and exotic lady beetles in soybean, alfalfa and grassland sites and returns 48 h later to measure predation rates. I am headed to Cleveland today with Kojo and Ian to set out eggs of an insect pest in community gardens and vacant lots across the city. We are running this experiment to determine if the activity of predatory arthropods is influenced by the conversion of vacant land to food production.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Crazy Week
Due to some stormy weather last week we are conducting two experiments this week, making for a crazy field schedule. Chelsea is in the midst of her second lady beetle egg experiment. To conduct this, she places eggs of native and exotic lady beetles in soybean, alfalfa and grassland sites and returns 48 h later to measure predation rates. I am headed to Cleveland today with Kojo and Ian to set out eggs of an insect pest in community gardens and vacant lots across the city. We are running this experiment to determine if the activity of predatory arthropods is influenced by the conversion of vacant land to food production.
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