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Букашечник, 05.12.2006 5:26

Hello! Dear entomologists, I have a request for you. A biology teacher I knew asked me to sketch out a dozen topics on forest entomology. He wants to conduct a small scientific work with his wards (students in grades 5-9) next summer. So far, I have enough imagination for five topics. It is unlikely that they will be able to go anywhere far from the city, so the emphasis is all on what can be done either in the city itself or in its immediate surroundings.

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05.12.2006 7:58, plantago

Biology of orchid pollination (do you have any?) -- very rich topic.
"Sundew victims" - who do insectivores eat? And then there are proton-insectivorous plants like tar.
All this work was done in the Tver region by schoolchildren, so there are plans, even some results and reports. It would be interesting to do this in Krasnoyarsk.

05.12.2006 8:18, KingSnake

The simplest work is a description of the fauna (species, encounters, preferred biotopes, etc.). It will be quite interesting for schoolchildren, I know from my own experience. True, I did this work not on insects, but on amphibians.

05.12.2006 11:07, Dmitrii Musolin

if it is possible to work all season and identify some mass species at the beginning of the season, then you can trace the phenology of all stages of development and see where and who winters and in what condition.

05.12.2006 13:19, Tigran Oganesov

You can watch the anthills, well, how many trails there are, what they wear, etc.

05.12.2006 13:21, Букашечник

Thank you to everyone who responded for their suggestions!!!
With orchids, it is difficult, but the idea of pollinators is very interesting, I will try to promote it. I'm afraid that insectivorous plants will be difficult. It won't be easy to find them in an accessible location.
As for the children's interest in faunal works, I agree, and I plan to focus on them.

05.12.2006 21:28, Насекомовед

As for the children's interest in faunal works, I agree, and I plan to focus on them.


I think that behavioral studies are no less interesting, and sometimes even more interesting: to see things that no one has ever seen before in living insects (communication, lifestyle, development, etc.). You can learn a lot from living nature.

05.12.2006 22:02, Mylabris

It would also be a good idea to conduct a faunal analysis of beetles in several areas: set traps in a typically residential area with a small amount of green space, near industrial enterprises or at the intersection of busy streets and somewhere in the vicinity, in parks, etc.

06.12.2006 3:46, Dmitrii Musolin

It would also be a good idea to conduct a faunal analysis of beetles in several areas: set traps in a typically residential area with a small number of green spaces, near industrial enterprises or at the intersection of busy streets and somewhere in the vicinity, in parks, etc.


the same comparison is also interesting for the distribution of damage types (overeating, mining, skeletonization, etc.)

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