School+Malaise+Trap+Project

=Devon Middle School's [|Malaise Trap Program]=

This September DMS partnered with the [|University of Guelph] and their Centre for Biodiversity Genomics to help trap, analyze and catalogue the "bugs" in our outdoor classroom. The University sent us a malaise trap (a fancy name for a bug trapper), specimen bottles and preservatives along with detailed instructions of how to set up the trap and collect our specimens. =We ended up collecting over __107 different species__ in our little wetland, 2 of which had never been collected before in this program!= ===And 32 of the species were only collected in our trap out of all the schools involved in the program! It was nice to contribute to the [|International Barcode of Life] project!=== = = =The Program= = =



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