The Difficult Part of Being a Scientist

Being a scientist is not all fun and games! Today we spent the WHOLE day trying to figure out what types of caterpillars and what types of plants we bagged yesterday. Then we have to put all of that information into a data sheet. It took us all day to identify just one plant!

First we set up our "zoo". It is made of PVC pipe and yarn! The first picture is us setting up the zoo.

Then we take out all the bags we collected yesterday and figure out the exact type of caterpillar and plant in the bag. We also have to make sure that clean all the frass out of the bag.

What do you think frass is?

The second picture is all of the bags that we collected yesterday and tagged today. This is how our zoo looked at the end of the day! We did A LOT of work on Sunday!