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Heating Things up with Crickets

By: Jenyth Sullivan, Josh Herron, and Sydney R oberts. Heating Things up with Crickets. What We Were Really Wondering…. Do crickets have a preference in whether their food is spicy or not and if so, to what extent will they search for non-spicy food?. Hypothesis:.

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Heating Things up with Crickets

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  1. By: Jenyth Sullivan, Josh Herron, and Sydney Roberts Heating Things up with Crickets

  2. What We Were Really Wondering… • Do crickets have a preference in whether their food is spicy or not and if so, to what extent will they search for non-spicy food?

  3. Hypothesis: • If the intake of spicy food is related to crickets’ behavior, then spicy food in a crickets diet will cause the crickets to seek out an alternate food source, due to the irritation of Capsaicin.

  4. Materials: • 24 house crickets • One potato • 2 small sponges • 2 large containers • Hot Sauce • Distilled water • A paper towel roll • Plastic wrap (If your containers do not have clear lids) • Wax paper • Tape

  5. Putting Our Box Together: Cricket Whisperer

  6. Putting Our Box Together Cont. • First, we cut a hole on the side, at the bottom of each box. It should be just large enough to wedge the paper towel roll in. • Then, we connected the two boxes with the paper towel roll. • Next, we laid wax paper down inside both containers.

  7. Testing the Hot Sauce:

  8. The Effects…

  9. Next, we set the box up with a wet sponge and a raw potato. This provides the crickets with both food and water

  10. Day 1:

  11. Day 2:

  12. Day 3:

  13. Day 4: Cricket

  14. Day 5:

  15. Results: Storage Container 1 did contain hot sauce Storage Container 2 did not contain hot sauce

  16. Results: As the days progressed, the number of crickets remaining with the hot sauce went down while the number of crickets that left went up.

  17. Room for Improvement: • We had a minor setback when all of our crickets ran away; therefore, a better design would be ideal, were the experiment to be repeated. • Also, the paper towel roll could have been too small of a tunnel for the crickets to realize there was food on the other side.

  18. Sources for the Experiment: • Burnie, David. The Kingfisher Illustrated Animal Encyclopedia. 1st ed. Kingfisher, 2000. 52-53. Print. • “Capsaicin.” Wikipedia. 23 Feb 2010. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc, Web. 4 Mar 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsaicin>. • "Crickets (insect)." Wikipedia. 04 Mar 2010. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc, Web. 4 Mar 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_(insect)>. • "Cricket Care and Feeding." New York Worms. Web. 4 Mar 2010. <http://www.nyworms.com/ccare.htm>. • Harmon, Jane. "What is Capsaicin?." Wise Geek. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Jun 2010. <http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-capsaicin.htm>. • Lyon, William. "Ohio State University Extension Fact Sheet: Crickets." The Ohio State University Fact Sheet. Web. 4 Mar 2010. <http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2066.html>.

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