Monday, October 3, 2011

Rotting Log Investigations





Log Poking Technique
Mushroom
Beetle grub and mycilia
Thursday we went out into the woods behind school and poked around the rotting logs. Bug spray was provided to those who wanted it and only one tick was spotted. We looked for decomposers and used a field guide to identify the creatures that we found. We found termites, fungi, ants, spiders, centipedes, millipedes, crickets, wood roaches, slugs, snails, grubs and many other types of soil decomposers and the creatures that prey upon them. Here is the field guide that we used: Soil Decomposers.
Milipede
Egg in a basket fungi

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