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We are very careful and gentle when we are holding our leaf insect pets. They like to crawl all over us.

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Rendelsham JP and Pre-school have some very special pets. We have Leaf Insects. Some of our classmates even have some pet leaf insects at home. We make sure that they have water and gum leaves. We have two females. One of them has already shed it's skin.

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Hi Insect Investigators,
We found this bug/insect in our school yard. We are wondering if you could tell us what it is? We found that the underside was all puffy and quite interesting.
Thank you,
Rendelsham JP Class

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Today I (Andy @ UniSC) met with the 7/8 boys and girls to discuss their collection of 310 insects, a local story about native bees and touch footy! 

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Zooming with Gunana Mornington Island School!

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Zooming with Gunana Mornington Island School!

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Hi we have found this amazing looking moth buried in our sound pit, it is still alive. Do you know what sort of moth this is? 

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Hi we have found this amazing looking moth buried in our sound pit, it is still alive. Do you know what sort of moth this is? 

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Hi Insect Investigators!
We've just posted a news post, updating you on what's been happening in the lab! Our diligent sorters have processed all 200 Malaise trap bottles and are now pulling out target taxa! Read all about it at https://insectinvestigators.com.au/next-step-dna-barcoding/

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Next step: DNA barcoding! – Insect Investigators

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The Insect Investigators sorting team has been hard at work these past few months and has now processed all 200 Malaise trap bottles! We’ve sorted all of the specimens to ‘Order’ level.

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Hi Insect Investigator team,
We would like to know what kind of insects did you find in our traps in week 2-4. We really enjoyed the video that you sent us for the week 1 trap. Could we get some more videos to share as a school?
Kind regards,
Upper /Middle Primary classes

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So a few weeks ago one of our students caught a moth during class, but accidentally left it in the jar overnight! The next day, we discovered it had laid a whole lot of eggs. Using iNat & the ustralian Butterflies & Moths group on Facebook, we discovered that it was a species that fed on Casuarina & Allocasuarina plants. This is what I arrived to in my office this morning!

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Week one sorted! Hi Glenden students! Meet Chris, who sorted your week one trap today.

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Hi Glenden! We were so excited to receive your samples this week, thanks for getting them in the post!

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Hi Southern Hills students! Meet Chris, who sorted one of your trap samples to Order level :)

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Hi Mount Molloy! Meet Andrew, who sorted your week one trap!

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Hi Roxby! Meet Ned, who sorted your week two trap yesterday :)

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Hi Yeronga students! Meet Ned, who sorted your trap!

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Hi East Kimberley students! Chris sorted your trap today!

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I’m a bit behind the videos, sorry Kalgoorlie students! Your week one trap was sorted last week :)

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And that's a wrap. Thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Thank you

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Hi KICE students! Meet Andrew, who sorted your week one trap last week :)

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Hi St Patrick’s students! Meet Ned, who sorted your trap last week!

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Hi Yalata students! This is Elise, who sorted your week one trap last week :)

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Hi Back Plains students! Meet Andrew, who sorted your week one trap last week. SO MANY BEETLES!!!

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Hi Loxton students! Andrew sorted your week one trap last week - sorry that I’m a bit behind in uploading the video!

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Hi Peg’s Creek students! Andrew sorted your week one sample last Thursday, sorry I’m a bit behind on uploading the video!

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Sorry Kogan students, I’m a bit behind getting the videos uploaded - but Elise sorted your week one trap last Thursday! Looking good!

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Hi Streaky Bay! My name is Bec and I was in charge of sorting your Week 1 malaise trap. Here's a cute  little true bug, of the Order Hemiptera, that you guys collected. You can see the long straw-like mouthpart, called a rostrum, that it uses to suck up its food. This trait helped me identify it as a Hemipteran. You guys had a great trap, keep up the good work!

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Hi Allanson! My name is Bec and I was in charge of sorting your Week 1 malaise trap. Here's one of the awesome specimens you collected - an ichneumonid wasp ('ick - new - mon - id'). Looking closely, a thrip was tangled in her long legs. These insects are very small and I had to be very delicate when separating them during sorting.
Good work, you guys!

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Hi Babakin students! Elise sorted your week one trap to order level today.

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Hi Columba Students! Meet Ned, who sorted your first trap today.

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Hi Ceduna students! Meet William, who sorted your week one trap to order level today!

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Hi Prospect Creek students! Ned sorted your week one trap today - last time I visited your school we found HEAPS of lady beetles - there were still some in this trap but lots of other exciting things too!

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Hi Denmark students! James sorted your Malaise trap from week one today!

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Hi students from Koonibba! Meet Ned, who sorted your week one trap today to order level. You caught some great insects!

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Hi Crystal Brook students! Meet Elise, who sorted your trap today :)

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Hi Shark Bay students! Week one was sorted today by William!

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Hi Beerwah students! James sorted your trap to Order level today!

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We have had a fabulous time being part of the Insect Investigators project. Thank you for letting us participate. We are really looking forward to hearing the results of the investigations. Hopefully we have discovered a new species of insect!

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Hi Mornington Island students! Meet Ned, who sorted your week one trap yesterday!

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Hi Tamborine Mountain State School! Meet Elise, who sorted your week one trap yesterday

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Hi Kalumburu students! Bec sorted your week one trap yesterday, and found lots of great insects!

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Hi Elliston! Meet Elise, who sorted your week one trap yesterday. We’re excited about all the wasps!

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Here’s a quick timelapse of Ned sorting a trap! He’s using the microscope to look at each insect and place it in the right vial. This is a big trap, so he’s looking at the sample in lots of smaller sections so he can see all the specimens clearly. If only it actually was this fast!

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We are loving all the caterpillars we are finding! Do you know what sort this is?

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We are loving all the caterpillars we are finding! Do you know what sort this is?

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We found some interesting eggs (?) on the underneath of our office building. We are not sure what they are!

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We found some interesting eggs (?) on the underneath of our office building. We are not sure what they are!

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Trap all packed up ready to return. We are buying our own for the Science Department next year!

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Trap all packed up ready to return. We are buying our own for the Science Department next year!

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Leaving our site for the final time...we're going to miss our weekly hill climb :(

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Leaving our site for the final time...we're going to miss our weekly hill climb :(

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Hi Cameron Downs students! Ned sorted your week one trap to Order level today and found some cool insects amongst all the grasshoppers!

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Hi Streaky Bay students! Meet Bec, who sorted your trap to order level today!

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Hi Pingrup students! Meet Ned, who sorted your week one trap to order level today :)

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Hi Kingston students! Bec sorted your trap sample from week one to Order level today!

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Hi South Newman Primary! James sorted your trap to Order level today!

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Hey Boddington students! Meet Ned, who sorted your trap to Order level today!

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After 6 days of sorting we’ve got 25 bottles sorted to Order level! We’ve got a long way to go but it should get faster as the weeks go on and our amazing sorting team becomes more comfortable with the task!

Once bottles are sorted to Order level we’ll then choose the insects that will get DNA barcoded.

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Questions about spiders, scorpions and other arachnids?

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Questions about spiders, scorpions and other arachnids?

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Don’t forget to send in your questions for Dr Mark Harvey to answer during our first meet the taxonomist webinar this Thursday! Email them to Erinn.Fagan-jeffries@adelaide.edu.au by Tuesday 29 March!

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Hi Derby District High School students! Andrew sorted your week 1 sample to Order level today :)

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Hi North Tom Price students! Your week one sample is being sorted to by Andrew!

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Hi Spirit of Play students! Andrew is busy sorting your trap to Order today and found some cool insects!

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Hi Rendelsham Primary! Andrew sorted your week one trap to Order level today and found some cool things!

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Well it's been another busy week here at Elliston Area School. The weekend was warm and fairly still during the day, so Tuesday's trap jar had quite a few insects in it. For the first time we caught a few butterflies, there were plenty of small moths, and some new beetles as well.
During lesson time we have been using the net and jars to capture invertebrates and practice our scientific drawing skills.
In Design & Tech time we also made some functional Pooters, using new and found materials. Enjoy the photos!

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Hi Kalumburu students! Your week one bottle has made it to Adelaide! It’s had one of the longest journeys of all the bottles but it made it safe and sound.

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Hi Wallaroo mines! Andrew sorted your week one trap today!

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Hi Belgian Gardens students! Meet Shannon, who is sorting your trap today!

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Hi Roxby students! Wanted to let you know that both samples from weeks two and three have arrived safe in the lab! We’re working with your teacher to find out where week one ended up - but it might have got lost in the post! Hopefully it turns up! But week 3 looks AMAZING! Lots of cool wasps!

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Every Recess on a Tuesday we have our own Insect Investigators club. This is very popular with our students.

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Our JP class found a very interesting insect this week on our door step.

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Hi Yeppoon students! This is Andrew, who studies orchids and their wasp pollinators. He’s sorting your trap today!

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Hi Mimili Aṉangu students! This is Shannon, who is sorting your trap today!

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I'm playing catch up now - will have more photos soon.

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James is very busy sorting lots of traps

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Hi everyone at Faith Lutheran! Meet James, who is sorting your week one trap today :) he found a pretty cool ant lion! You should also go check out the picture of the ant lion that Spirit of Play (WA) students found - it is huge!

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Springsure students, meet William! He’s sorting your trap today.

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https://insectinvestigators.com.au/sorting-to-order/

Find out how the traps are sorted in the video above!

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Some interesting insects this week!

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Bit exciting! Week 3 sample!

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Before we sort the traps, we measure the biomass of the insects - find out why and how by watching the video on our website: https://insectinvestigators.com.au/measuring-biomass/

This data is what we’ll compare with your habitat assessment results!

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Lacie changing this weeks bottle. Kids were very keen to see what was captured in the insect soup. There was lots to see this week, including a curious frog in the container.

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We found lots of these little holes around the malaise trap this week. The holes are most likely dug by lizards.

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Wet season nearly over. The ground is starting to dry up around the lake.

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Todays Insect Investigator crew very keen to see what they can find with their nets, magnifying glasses and specimen jars. We downloaded an app on the phone to identify the insects we found today! Jeramya found lots of Skimmers, the girls were frog hunting!

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Evie with a fascinating grasshopper exuvia :)

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We loved these see through wings and marvelled at how this adaptation would enable this flying insect to land and camouflage itself on anything :-) We found it on a concrete seat when we were waiting for the bus back to school. This is an average height 11 year old's hands for a rough measurement.

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This awesome stick insect crawled all around on Michael, a parent helper, before returning to his home.

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We have been investigating the mini-beasts around our malaise tent. One Year 2 student Tali Mitchell spotted this camouflaged Spider. Can you see it? Hidden in one of hundreds of open Hakea Oliafolia nuts. The spider was home the next week too :-)

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We have had robust debates will all 3 classes that have made it William Bay National Park (Years 1-6) about the ethics of killing insects for science. For the middle primary classe this investigation has spilled into a broader inquiry. Our catch and release techniques aren't as controversial with the learners.

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Trinity College students, meet Elise! Elise is studying science at The University of Adelaide and sorted your trap today!

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Hi Sandy Creek students! Bec sorted your trap to Order level today!

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One week to go. We are having a great time exploring our rainforest and searching for insects.

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Hi Gin Gin students! Meet James, who normally studies sea snakes, but today is sorting your trap! We thought you’d found a web spinner, but when we looked at it more closely under the microscope it turned out to be a super weird looking ant!

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Hi Blackall students! Meet Elise, she is sorting your week one trap today :)

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Hi Esperance Primary students! We received your week one trap safely and James sorted it today - unfortunately not many insects in it this week - hopefully more next week!? You might want to brainstorm why the trap didn’t catch much. Was it very windy or bad weather? Or maybe it was very cold or very hot?