Ant+Bait+Lab+Group+C

__//**Group Members:**//__ Maddie Zurinsky, Meagen Askounes, Curtis Gay, Nicole Cohick, Kennedy Severo, Brianna Boleratz, Lily Peterson, and Maggie Bernhardt
 * //__Ant Baiting Lab:__//**

__//**Our Bait:**//__ Tuna, Honey, and Karo syrup

__//**Location:**//__ Home side, under the press box.

__//**Procedure:**//__ Put the three different baits on three different cards and put them in a triangle around the centralized flag. We will fill each weigh boat half way with bait. Count the number of ants on each card 5th and 6th period and record it on this page.

__//**Independent Variable:**//__ Amount of tuna, honey and Karo syrup used
 * //__Dependent Variable:__//** Number of ants

//__**Hypothesis:**__// If we set out tuna, honey, and Karo syrup, more ants will be attracted to honey or Karo Syrup than tuna because ants are attracted to sweeter food products such as honey or Karo syrup rather than the bitter taste of tuna.

__**//Steps to follow://**__ 1. Period one obtains and sets up the cards in a triangle around the flag. 2. Put the bait on the cards and half way in the weigh boats. 3. Then place the baited cards around the centralized flag. 4. Period five will take photos of the ants. 5. Period five and six will count the number of ants on the sticky paper and then record it. 6. Period six will bring everything back in.

**//__Ant Data Table__//**

 * **//__ Bait __//** || **__// Number of Ants Pd. 1 //__ uNumber of Ants Pd.1 ** || **//__ Number of Ants Pd. 5 __// mber of Ants Pd. 5 ** || **//__ Number of Ants Pd. 6 __// er of An **
 * ts Pd. 6 ** ||
 * __//** Tuna **//__ ||  ||   ||   ||
 * __//** Honey **//__ ||  ||   ||   ||
 * __//** Karo Syrup **//__ ||  ||   ||   ||

Lab from Yesterday September 19 2011 Period 1. So, yesterday I went outside and put my Karo Syrup down. I put it by the ticket booth because there was some litter by it. I thought that the ants would also be attracted to the litter. Little did I know it blew away. Sorry guys! -Maggie Bernhardt

__**Pilot Study 9/19 Observations**__ Period 1: Period 5: No ants were located due to the misplacement of the bait. There was a mosquito though. Period 6: We had no ants because the bait was no longer there.

__**September 26, 2011**__ Period 1: Baiting, placing, and flagging lab. It is underneath the press box. Period 5: There were no ants at the location when we went but the water tuna appeared to have ant interaction. Period 6: There was a tiny black ant in the grass by the oil tuna. There was no ants by the water tuna. There was a lot of bugs in and around the oil tuna, though.