Six week Ant Study and Observations

Introduction

Myrmecology has been around since the late 18th and early 19th century. Myrmecology is derived from the classic word Murmek, which means pismire. There are three main(prenominal) names that are near noteworthy: Linne who produced Systemae Naturae which he describes eighteen species of ants. Fabricius created five more genera and further described other species. Latreille was the most significant, he collected and studied the ants of Europe and described umpteen species overlooked by his predecessors. In 1967 a fossil was instal that was preserved in amber fossil which showed an extinct species of an ant dating as far back as the cretaceous Age, near eighty million years ago (as cited in Ant Nest, 2005).

Methods/Data

The ant elevate that was observed was numbered 15. The farm was laid in the back of the biology lab room with bionic lighting. The ant farm complex body part is a clear ductile panel on two sides separated by a very thin space allowing for viewing by the observer, all(prenominal) of the four sides were made of a blue plastic, the inside had a blue fictitious farm looking structure for the dodge of the observer to get into the mental notion of being an ant farm creating a false surface and below maroon (surface) appearance.



The laboratory room has artificial fluorescent lighting and no windows for instinctive lighting.

Visual observations without touching the plastic structure of the ant farm are to take place during the normal course of from each one of the six weeks consecutively that I am to be in the laboratory classroom. There are nine ants within the structure of the ant farm. Data is to be collected using the natural observation scientific method. This data is to be taken in note format and be extruded to this written scientific root for submission. A...

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