Macro+Lab+-+Group+5

bMacro Lab - Group 5

​Cameryn Moore, Paige Griffin, Cooper Buprae, Caleb Angus

Materials: Microscope, Beaker, Bucket filled with River water and rocks, tweezers

Total score 3
 * Metric || Your Metric Value || 2 || 1 || 0 ||
 * %Mayflies + Stoneflies + Most Caddisflies || 0 || Greater than 32.2 || 16.1-32.2 || Less than16.1 ||
 * %Common Netspinners || 2 || Less than 19.7 || 19.7 -34.5 || Greater than 34.5 ||
 * %Lunged Snails || 0 || less than 0.3 || 0.3-1.5 || Greater than 1.5 ||
 * % Beetles || 1 || Greater than 6.4 || 3.2 - 6.4 || less than 3.2 ||
 * %Tolerant || 0 || Less than46.7 || 46.7 - 61.5 || Greater than 61.5 ||
 * %Non insects || 0 || Less than 5.4 || 5.4 - 20.8 || Greater than 20.8 ||

This is an unacceptable ecological Condition because there are less good insects than there are good ones this shows that the water is less clean compared to streams that have higher amounts of good insects such as Stoneflies or Beetles.

Individual Metrics Procedure- in this experiment we where trying to find out what types of bugs where in the water so we could determine whether that water is ecologically acceptable. So we we used the tweezers and suction thing to extract the insects and no-insects to determine what kind of insect they are so that we could determine whether the are good or bad insects for stream water.
 * Metric || Number || || Total number of organisms in the Sample || || Percent ||
 * Mayflies+Soneflies +Most Cddisflies || 0 || Divide by || 62 || multiply by 100 || 0 ||
 * Common Netspinners || 0 || Divide by || 62 || multiply by 100 || 0 ||
 * Lunged Snails || 0 || Divide by || 62 || multiply by 100 || 0 ||
 * Beetles || 0 || Divide by || 62 || || multiply by 100 ||