green machine

i got the idea for the name of this blog from my science teacher. he has us turn in our asignments to a folder called the green machine. i figured even though the thing is very green already i might as well make it even more so.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

termite observation

1. 120g of silica sand
19ml water
douglas furr wood
about 30 termites
(8/17)observation: slugish activity and eating the wood

2. (8/23) observations: litle of visible wood been eaten. surface sand displaced from diging tunels. manny tunels visable at botom of jar.

3. (8/30) observation: Wood- been eaten a little. Water- less of it. Sand- moved around. Termites- apears to be less, posibly in tunels that are not visable.

4. (9/9) observation: someone nocked over the jar, many tunels were colapsed some colapses traped termites. he remaning termited just started rebuilding the tunels.

5. I found the termite unit interesting but repetitive, i took notes at every opertunity  wich was helpfull but I did end up with repeated information wich was useless. my favorite part was that of the disecting and microscope. my least favorite part was that of the repeated notes.

6. i do not have anyhting else of interest about our termite enemys.