Insect Adventure, Part Three
Check out what is living in the Hanover, IL prairie, PLUS Jim Louderman shows us how to prepare insects for the collection. WIN-WIN. Help the Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation restore more...
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Welcome to the insect division at The Field Museum. We're here today to look at some of the things that we've collected up in Hanover. When we were up and we were up there with the middle school and Emily was up there beating trees and all that kind of good stuff. Okay, so this is one of the carrion trap samples that we found in Hanover, and this is the one we took out of the middle of the prairie when the kids from the middle school were there. So they helped pick up this trap. The first thing I find is a histerid, it's a Hister beetle, and they eat a lot of dead animals. This one's a little bit bigger. This is a Necrophila americana. These just come to a big carcass, like a deer, and lay their eggs on it, and then the larvae eat the deer carc...
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Welcome to the insect division at The Field Museum. We're here today to look at some of the things that we've collected up in Hanover. When we were up and we were up there with the middle school and Emily was up there beating trees and all that kind of good stuff. Okay, so this is one of the carrion trap samples that we found in Hanover, and this is the one we took out of the middle of the prairie when the kids from the middle school were there. So they helped pick up this trap. The first thing I find is a histerid, it's a Hister beetle, and they eat a lot of dead animals. This one's a little bit bigger. This is a Necrophila americana. These just come to a big carcass, like a deer, and lay their eggs on it, and then the larvae eat the deer carc...
