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Pillbug Lab Report
A Pill Bugs Preference to a Rough and Smooth Environment

The experiment that I decided to look into, was finding out if an Armadillidium vulgar, also known as a pill bug, would have a preference to the two types of environments that I had decided to experiment with. The two types of habitats that I choose were saran wrap which is smooth and sandpaper that is rough. How I set up this test was I had a choice chamber with a barrier in the middle that had a little door cut out of the bottom center so the pill bugs could walk through. I placed sandpaper on the bottom of one side and saran wrap on the bottom of the other side. After placing the pill bugs into the chamber I observed them for 10 minutes taking notes on their activity every
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