The rational of my project is to keep ants (Monomorium minimum) or also called little black ants, outside of our homes, and to not tempt them to come back in. The physical structure of an ant’s body and the lipid layer covering their exoskeleton makes ants a poor site for bacterial collection. Also, an ant’s saliva is made of antimicrobial agents that help sterilize the ant’s body. (Wicken, D, (April 20, 2006) Even though ants are one of the most sterile species in the world, psychologically ants cause an over whelming feeling when they are in your home. Also, it is always annoying to find ants in your food or all over your counter. Like most ants, Monomorium minimums have a sting but it only hurts small insects like aphids, there main food source. (Adams E., Traniello J. [1981-01]). If the …show more content…
Steps 1-7 will be repeated for 3 days at the same time and spot
9. A conclusion will be made on the data including what bait was the most popular to the ants and what baits the ants went to first, second, third, etc.
Risk and safety: There are no risk or safety hazards in this science fair project
Data analysis:
1. Average out all the data
2. Make a bar graph with the categories sugar, cheerios, potato chips, fruit, salt, peperoni, and no bait.
3. Mark the baits on top of each bar from the order the ants visited each bait.
4. Compare the data and draw a conclusion.
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That CO2 and water vapor would then flow into a condensing ice bath that would cool the water vapor to condense it and remove it from the system. The CO2 and water would also pass through a Drierite Column to ensure that all excess water was removed before the airflow finally reached the CO2 analyzer was not wet. This CO2 analyzer then determines how much CO2 is in the air and sends that information to a computer with the Logger Pro 3 application to display all of the data that was received from the apparatus that was created. The application takes in flow rate data, temperature data, and CO2 in parts per million data. The weigh in grams, the sex, the amount of CO2 in ppm, and the status of habituation of the cockroach were recorded. Flow rate and temperature were also recorded and relatively consistent. A graph with metabolic rate (ml CO2 per min) on the y-axis and the groups of male and female for habituated and unhabituated cockroaches would go along the x-axis to help visualize the differences between the groups. An Analysis of Variance test (ANOVA) would be conducted by calculating the means of each group and with that calculating the sum of squares within groups, sum of squares between groups, and the total
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