200 polies rolled out of our collection bucket late yesterday afternoon into a 4' x 4' habitat we had constructed for them. The habitat has four zones - moist potting soil, dry potting soil, dry local dirt and bark and leaves. It's up to them to choose their favorites.
Unfortunately, we buit the thing for roly poly comfort, not for science. Just how we're going to round up and count 200 rolies at the end of the experiment is beyond me. Lots of them are tiny, too. We may just go with a statistical count - of the ones we found, what percentage were in which habitat or something like that.
Photos to follow.
Look forward to the photos.
ReplyDeleteKT.....get a small piece of magnet, attach it to a string, and they're easy to pick up.
ReplyDeleteDidn't know they're magnetic?
Include pictures of the magnet retrieval system for Kelly!