Bugs, Soil, Plants and Compost! 
SITE #1 By the Rio Grande River
The gang is ready to get bugging!
A beetle we found.
We found 10 sugar ants, 2 midge flies,
2 spiders and a beetle. The temperature outside was 30 C or 88 F.
The soil was 23 C or 72 F. The soil was dry and
sandy.
Together we'll identify that bug!
Together we'll identify that bug!
Site #2 Rio Grande Nature Center (Wooded Area)
There's a bug in here somewhere!
Some interesting findings under the microscope.
If there are more, we'll find them!
Bugs love the woods! We found 3 fire ants, 2 small spiders, 2 flies, 1 caterpillar, 2 red ants, a wolf spider, a black ant, a pincher bug and cicada shell (see above). The air temperature was 31C or 88 F while the soil was 86F.
Site #3 Montgomery
Park (lots of grass = not many bugs!)
We had two sites here. In
one we found 8 insects (a fly, a red ant, black ant, 2 gnats, 2 beetles
and 1 unknown bug. The other site was home to one ant and larvae. The
temperature outside was 22 C in the shade and 39. The soil was dark
and moist from being watered. We found out that grass and plants love
to grow there but insects don't like to live there.
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Larvae in the grass. |
Where
are the bugs when you want to find them?
Site #4 Empty, Natural
Lot
The soil was full of rocks and sand with very little evidence of vegetation. Plants don't like to grow here, but the insects liked living on this site better. It was hot (39C or 100 F)! In one site here we found 32 insects (28 ants, a leaf bug and mosquito). In the other site we found 15 ants and a grasshopper. It's hard to count ants because they move so much.
The soil was full of rocks and sand with very little evidence of vegetation. Plants don't like to grow here, but the insects liked living on this site better. It was hot (39C or 100 F)! In one site here we found 32 insects (28 ants, a leaf bug and mosquito). In the other site we found 15 ants and a grasshopper. It's hard to count ants because they move so much.
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