We are interested in life of insects living in Northern Black Sea.
We develop the project of struggle with household garbage (dust) through insects.
Vasiliy Shipica,
Student, 15 years old from School 101
Odessa, Ukraine
Vasiliy has proposed the following experiment to analyze the waste that we produce and how quickly insects can reduce that waste to soil. If you are interested in contributing to this project click here.
We are still working on an accurate translation of this procedure, but please have a look at what we have so far:
Procedure for experiments under the project
« Struggle with household waste of an organic origin through insects »
1. Definition of average quantity (amount) of organic waste, subject recycling made by one person per day.
1.1. Collect waste of an organic origin for one day.
The tax waste of one kind to carry out in polyethylene package.
After the tax all waste to make triple weighing, of each package and to receive average size waste of each kind.
Summarized of weight of each kind waste and to determine a percentage parity of kinds waste.
Term of experiment 10 days each three months.
Results of supervision.
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2.Definition of speed of recycling dusts by insects.
2.1. Insectarium design.
Any capacity with densely closed grid covered by the sizes (not less) 200_150_100 mm suits construction of Insectarium.
Quantity of insects arbitrary.
Definition of quantity of a forage food by one insect
We take 25 grammes of organic waste received as a result of experiment 1 and put it in our Insectarium.
We observe how long it takes the insects to completely destroy the organic waste.
Results of observation
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Age |
Size |
Temperature |
Humidity |
Food* |
Speed of recycling dusts (total) |
Speed of Recycling Dusts (by one person) |
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