Lab Weeks 5-8 Effect of Plant Density on crawling insects vs flying insects

Data was collected based on the number of crawling insects versus flying insects that were found within an area containing a low density, medium density and high density of plants. Two types of traps were set up in order to gather an accurate census of the data; the first trap being a pit fall trap, which was utilized to capture and examine crawling insects, while the second trap being a pan trap which was used to observe the flying insects. The 2 types of traps were placed in adjacent proximity of each other. Each pair of traps was placed approximately 5 meters apart from each other with a total of six pairs of traps per density. The first set of traps were placed on October 14th 2014 and was examined of the number of insects in each trap the following two days. The second set of traps were placed on October 21st 2014 and were also observed and recored the following two days of when they were placed. The experiment took place at the grasslands east of Stong Pond.