Insect Adventure, Part One
Nothing says collection expedition like rotten chicken liver! Help the Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation restore more native prairies in Illinois: http://www.jdcf.org/ Facebook: http://www.f...
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We're here today because the town of Hanover and Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation have acquired this old soybean field and they're restoring it as a prairie. And they've been working here for about six years and we're surveying the insect population. Okay. So this is a carrion trap. - Ewwww!! Wow. - Oooh, lots of good stuff! So, there is lots of stuff in here. So how long was this in the ground for? Four and a half weeks, about a month. - Really. And that's a tea strainer, That's a tea strainer. - that you're gonna strain through. That's very sophisticated. Yeah, we are. So, it's a carrion trap, so what does that mean? Okay, so this, - Yeah. had four ounces of chicken liver in it- Sounds appetizing. -hung over the...
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We're here today because the town of Hanover and Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation have acquired this old soybean field and they're restoring it as a prairie. And they've been working here for about six years and we're surveying the insect population. Okay. So this is a carrion trap. - Ewwww!! Wow. - Oooh, lots of good stuff! So, there is lots of stuff in here. So how long was this in the ground for? Four and a half weeks, about a month. - Really. And that's a tea strainer, That's a tea strainer. - that you're gonna strain through. That's very sophisticated. Yeah, we are. So, it's a carrion trap, so what does that mean? Okay, so this, - Yeah. had four ounces of chicken liver in it- Sounds appetizing. -hung over the...
