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Insects have been a

nuisance to man since the beginning of time, up

until the present. One of the plagues that struck

Egypt was swarms of crickets, and locusts, which

destroyed crops, and ate entire fields. Swarms of

Crickets can cover up to 210 km. There have

been cases of up to 100,000,000,000 insects in a

swarm (one hundred billion). In these huge

masses, they can completely destroy the land and

everything on a farm. I chose to do this experiment

because when I am at camp I am constantly

woken up by the loud chirping of these annoying

insects. There are three types of crickets: Mole

Crickets, Field Crickets, and House Crickets. The

Mole Cricket’s body is designed for digging

subterranean tunnels. This Cricket’s body is well

adapted to digging. The Mole Cricket usually lives

in hot dry areas, and are extremely harmful to

plants such as barley, and flax The Field Cricket

has had a history in ancient China. This cricket’s

beautiful song was held in particularly high esteem.

These crickets were often kept in exquisitely

ornamented cages made of sandalwood, ivory or

jade. The Most common cricket is the house

cricket. The house cricket’s body is more slender

than that of the field cricket. It is also generally

lighter in color. This crickets appears in abundance

in central Europe, such as cellars, houses,

bakeries, and so on. Procedure Problem: How do

I make a cricket deterrent that is environmentally

friendly? Hypothesis: If I use a deterrent that has a

strong odor, then it will deter the crickets from that

area. 2 I started my experiment by first buying 60

crickets. The crickets were stored in bags until

they were ready to be used. I purchased a clear

plastic box with holes in the top for breathing. I

made a divider out of cardboard and secured it in

the center of the box, making four equal sections.

One section was the control, and in the others I

put a deterrent. Two tests were made that were

thrown out because they were irrelevant. In the

first case, the crickets were not deterred at all by

any of the substances. The test was done outside,

and the crickets seemed to simply move their

position depending on the location of the sun. The

crickets seemed only deterred by the sun. They all

moved to wherever the shadow of the sun seemed

the darkest. I concluded that crickets are

deterred, to some extent, by sunlight. The other

test seemed erroneous because all of the crickets

died very quickly. In this test, the crickets all died

within 15 minutes, in whichever substance they

went in first. There was too much of liquid in each

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