1. My Question
What is the population of the Carabid Beetle in my
Garden and which habitat do they Prefer:Compost
Heap, Wood Heap Or Compost Bin?

2. Why I choose this
Question Because i wanted to
find out more about
beetles and i choose
it because jude
waned to do it and i
wanted to do it.

3. AREAS
The Wood Pile
Lots of wood not much tools needed just need to
use hands.
The Compost Bin
Lots of food scraps and leaves and EARWIGS!!!!
Compost Heap
Lots of Grass and thorns and some branches.

5. Hypothesis What I Think
I think we will find the beetles in the soil.
My population estimate is about 30
beetles total

7. Materials
Twink: T Mark the Beetles
o
An Ice-Cream Container: T store the
o
Beetles
2 Digging Tools: T Dig For the Beetles
o

8. T Method
est
Step 1: Look in 1 of selected 3
places for 10 Minutes.
Step 2: Mark Beetles with Twink.
Step 3:Release Beetles in place
found, then look in the other 2
places repeating the process
above.
Step 4:Record results.
Step 5:Next week repeat process

9. Record Results
1st search 2nd search
Type compost compost wood pile Type compost compost wood pile
bin heap bin heap
date 20/7/12 20/7/12 20/7/12 date 21/7/12 21/7/12 21/7/12
:
time 4:15pm 3:35pm 4:45pm time 12:50pm 12:02pm 12:30pm
temp unknow 16.6 14 temp 14.3 12.6 13.3
n
foun 2 4 2 found 2 1 1
d 3rd search 4th search
compost
Type Compost bin
heap
wood pile
Type Compost heap compost bin wood pile
Date: 4/8/1 4/8/1 4/8/1 Date: 5/8/12 5/8/12 5/8/12
Time 1:45pm 1:35pm 2:00pm Time 10:10am 10:20am 10:30am
2 2 2
T emp 14.1 13.2 13.9 T emp 9.2 10.2 10.2
Found 1 0 1 Found 0 0 0

10. Record-Result
search 5 search 6
compost compost wood
Type compost compost wood pile type
heap bin bin heap pile
date 8/8/12 8/8/12 8/8/12 date 16/8/12 16/8/12 16/8/12
temp 7.6 7.6 7.6 temp 10.4 10.4 10.4
time 4:05 4:15 4:25 time 4:20 4:10 4:30
found 0 0 1 found 2(1 R)4c 1 R 4
search 7 search 8
Compost compost compost compost
type wood pile type wood pile
heap bin heap bin
date 18/8/12 18/8/12 18/8/12 date 23/8/1 23/8/1 23/8/1
temp 12.4 12.4 12.4 temp 2 2 2
time 3:40 3:20 3:30 time 4:10 4:00 3:50
found 0 0 1 found 0 1 0

11. Final Test
TYPE COMPOST BIN
DATE 26/8/12
TEMP
TIME 10:00
FOUND 23
TIME TAKEN 20 min

12. 3rd test
Dry light:0
Wet light:5
Dry Dark:0
Wet Dark:3
Escapees:13
Missing:3
4th test
Dry light:4
Wet light:8
Dry Dark:1
Wet Dark:8
Missing:1
In the choice chamber we have dry and wet
with light and the other side is dark.

13. Conclusion
The Carabid Beetles prefer the
Compost Bin,because it is dryer.
Population was:40

14. Was my prediction right?
My prediction was incorrect.I was also
wrong about how much there were.I was
off by 10.