Cockroach and the Cricket

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The metabolic rate for the cricket and the cockroach will be different when physical stress and temperature changes are present.The null hypothesis is that the cricket’s metabolic rate will be similar to (Blaptica dubia) cockroach’s rate when physical stress and temperatures changes are present.
The cricket will experience an increase in metabolic rate when subjected to physical stress similar to the response of (Blaptica dubia) cockroach. The cricket will also show an increased response as the (Blaptica dubia) cockroach when cold, hot, and lethal hot temperatures are applied.
Insects can survive in very hostile environments and they are difficult to completely eradicate without harming the environment. Studying their metabolic rate under stress might allow us to figure out better and more environmentally safe ways to kill them.
Materials and Methods
The Cockroach (Blaptica Dubai) was obtained from the laboratory personnel at UNM. The cricket (Acheta domesticus) was purchased from a pet store in Albuquerque called Clark’s Emporium. The cockroach was raised in an opaque plastic box that contained egg shell cartons. The roaches were in a room temperature environment. Every day they were fed dog food, vegetables and provided with adequate amounts of water provided by polysaccharide water crystals. The Cricket was maintained in a glass tank with eggshell cartons at room temperature. They were fed “Total Bites” once a day. Total Bites are gel food that provided them with both nutrients and water.
First took a cricket and a cockroach that had been fasting for 24 hours and weighed them separately in a tared container. They were fasted to ensure that the metabolic rate recorded was accurate because their individual diets could interfere ...

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....0504 J/g/min when shaken, 0.3593 J/g/min while exposed to cold temperature, 0.9419 J/g/min while exposed to hot temperature, and 1.4163 J/g/min when exposed to lethal hot temperature (Figure 1). The mean metabolic rate for the treatment animal (cricket) was 1.2258 J/g/min at rest, 2.5338 J/g/min when shaken, 0.7692 J/g/min while exposed to cold temperature, 1.4655 J/g/min while exposed to hot temperature, 2.4604 J/g/min when exposed to lethal hot temperature (figure 2). The T-tests results were the following; at rest p=0.0566, when shaken p=0.2609, when exposed to cold temperature p=0.2795, when exposed to hot temperature p=0.2426, and when exposed to lethal hot temperature p=0.6979 (Table 2). A p-value of 0.4385 (Table 2) was calculated from the average mass of the control animal of 1.536 g and the average mass of 0.4888 g obtained from treatment animal (Table 1).

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