Pill Bug Lab Report Essay
Introduction
These species are commonly known as pill bugs; they are terrestrial crustaceans that are oval shaped and a little flat. Pill bugs live in gardens, fields, forests or any region that is moist and are most likely found under rocks. The reason behind as to why isopods prefer a moist area is because they don’t have a good waterproofing cuticle wax, which causes them to dry out easily (“Critter Catalog," n.d., para. 8). Pill bugs are also known as “roly-polies” because of their ability to roll up into a ball.
Isopods are also ferocious scavengers that are most likely to eat anything such as decaying plants and animal material. They also navigate towards a surround that they recognize. If a pill bug is placed between a moist and dry environment we predict that they will chose the …show more content…
For the fourth trail we looked to see which one would the isopods choose “ Glucose or water” and we predicted it would choose glucose again.
For the third trial we were correct as 80 percent of the isopods went towards the glucose and 20 percent went to dry. Though we were wrong for the fourth trial. Only 40 percent of the isopods went towards the glucose and 60 percent went towards the water. This shows that the isopods prefer a moist area than a sweet one. Therefore, our hypothesis was incorrect.
Discussion For future references what we could do to improve out methods of conducting this experiment is after each trial we should clean the choice tube to make sure there is no residue, which can cause miscalculations. Though the whole experiment we used different sizes of isopods. Maybe next time we can stick to one size throughout the whole experiment or we could do these trials by size. Preform the same trial a few times using different of pill bugs and see if the size of the pill bugs has anything to do with their
These species are commonly known as pill bugs; they are terrestrial crustaceans that are oval shaped and a little flat. Pill bugs live in gardens, fields, forests or any region that is moist and are most likely found under rocks. The reason behind as to why isopods prefer a moist area is because they don’t have a good waterproofing cuticle wax, which causes them to dry out easily (“Critter Catalog," n.d., para. 8). Pill bugs are also known as “roly-polies” because of their ability to roll up into a ball.
Isopods are also ferocious scavengers that are most likely to eat anything such as decaying plants and animal material. They also navigate towards a surround that they recognize. If a pill bug is placed between a moist and dry environment we predict that they will chose the …show more content…
For the fourth trail we looked to see which one would the isopods choose “ Glucose or water” and we predicted it would choose glucose again.
For the third trial we were correct as 80 percent of the isopods went towards the glucose and 20 percent went to dry. Though we were wrong for the fourth trial. Only 40 percent of the isopods went towards the glucose and 60 percent went towards the water. This shows that the isopods prefer a moist area than a sweet one. Therefore, our hypothesis was incorrect.
Discussion For future references what we could do to improve out methods of conducting this experiment is after each trial we should clean the choice tube to make sure there is no residue, which can cause miscalculations. Though the whole experiment we used different sizes of isopods. Maybe next time we can stick to one size throughout the whole experiment or we could do these trials by size. Preform the same trial a few times using different of pill bugs and see if the size of the pill bugs has anything to do with their