Decided on Monday

I decided to have my new leaf packs set before I pull the other two so I have plenty of time to dissect them on Monday. As of right now there is two placed at Rio Salado Park off of Central and each trap has two bags tied together, so I essentially have four to go through. Wednesday I Filled 9 more with the same dried sycamore leaves from the tree at Phoenix College over by the green house. Josh and I spoke and we’re thinking of using stakes to anchor the traps down rather than relying on a stray tree branch that might break off. Also if I do this I won’t have to tie the traps together, so if I lose one trap I’m not essentially losing two.

No Bugs, No Glory... Can't Wait to Find Out!!

I didn’t do a blog post the week before spring break… So I’m on here to update everyone on my progress. Fortunately, two of the three leaf pack traps I placed are intact at Rio Salado Park. After the field trip on Friday (tomorrow) I am going to prepare some more traps with sycamore leaves from Phoenix College to hopefully set this weekend (maybe I will find someone to help me). It has been about four weeks since I placed them so I need to retrieve them sometime next week! I will keep everyone posted! Thankfully there is still enough time in the semester to continue placing traps so I can come up with as much data as possible. I wasn’t able to actually do a successful one last semester so this should be exciting. In the meantime I’m going to quiz myself on my aquatic macroinvertebrate knowledge so I’m ready for when pull them next week.