Today we realized the true extent of The Sweeper's (AKA Chelsea) activities this summer. We went though all three of our storage freezers and pulled out all of the Sweeper's samples, counted, and organized them by date to make sorting them easier. We have determined that over 1,008 sweep samples were collected during the summer! These samples were collected to determine how the diversity and abundance of arthropod predators present in a soybean, alfalfa, or grassland site influenced lady beetle egg predation.Progress on these samples was a little slow today as the many different predators which may eat lady beetle eggs were counted. We will push forward though, after all it was very hard work for the Sweeper to collect all that data!
-- Mary, Ian, and Chris
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