I’m located in Reno, Nevada. Reno’s climate is semiarid and Nevada is the driest state in the US. Additionally, Reno’s daily temperatures vary significantly: June’s average temperature high is 29 degrees celsius and its low is 10 degrees Celsius, similarly July’s average temperature high is 34 degrees and its low is 13 degrees celsius. In contrast, mosquitoes tend to breed best at around 29...
Experiment 1:
For my first experiment, I tested the effects of water color on mosquito oviposition.
Materials:
- Three 1.25-liter bottles
- Three bottles of food coloring (yellow, green, and blue)
- Three rocks
- Three paint stirring sticks
- Nine dog treat pebbles
- Three cups of water
Experimental Design:
After reading articles such as "New Study Shows Mosquitoes are Attracted to...
I decided to have two controls for my experiment: plain water and sugar water. Since I am testing how mosquitoes react to flowers; specifically, the number of eggs I collect, I wanted to get more variant data by having plain water and sugar water. After the first week of my experiment, I saw that many ants infested the sugar water (as anticipated), however, I found more mosquito larvae in the...
For 4 weeks this summer, much like other Earth Explorer interns, I built a few mosquito traps and set them out near my home within my AOI. I’m located in sunny Plano, Texas, near a creek. To set up my traps, I first bought 4 large, 2 Liter soda bottles, drank a small bit, and emptied the rest out. I know we shouldn’t eat in the lab, but let’s just say the experiment started after the bottles...
For my experiment, I decided to test the effect of sunlight and different colored traps on number of mosquito larvae.
I started my experiment by gathering six white buckets. I then painted two of them red and two of them blue. I also covered each bucket with a sealant.
After the buckets were prepared, I placed a white, red and blue bucket directly in the sunlight. The remaining three...
