Pill Bug Lab

While in Ap Biology we were investigating the more preferable habitats by Pill Bugs. My lab partner and I used a small tray with two connected circles on it. We chose two paper filters and ran water over one and left the other filter dry, we inserted them into the tray and let five different sized Pill Bugs into the tray. We studied there ways of movement to see which habitat they preferred more, over the course of twenty minutes we collected data once every minute to see where the Pill Bugs would scurry to. As they roamed around their new environments, we noticed a majority of the time they had collected on the Wet Filter side more often than the Dry Filter side. Pill Bugs already enjoy moist places, but they usually are dark as well. Our results showed us that over the course of the allotted time, the Pill Bugs had assembled on the Wet Filter side for a total of sixty-seven percent of the time. Also the Pill Bugs were on the Dry side thirty-three percent of the time. Therefore our conclusion is that they still stay true to their natural environment and that happens to be dark, moist places. Our data may have been better if we possibly had more items to test the Pill Bugs with. Maybe even more Pill bugs to be able to see how they interacted with one another and in a environment they are not quite used to as well.

Graph above shows the data collected over twenty minutes.