Citizen science school project: influence of colour and configuration on insect visitors
This presentation provides an introduction to pollination, the main insect taxa that visit flowers, and how flower colour, and flowering patch configuration (clumped, isolated, homogeneous, heterogeneous) can be predicted to influence the numbers and types of insect visitors. This presentation then...
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| author | Prendergast, Kit |
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| description | This presentation provides an introduction to pollination, the main insect taxa that visit flowers, and how flower colour, and flowering patch configuration (clumped, isolated, homogeneous, heterogeneous) can be predicted to influence the numbers and types of insect visitors. This presentation then describes a simple experiment that can be performed to investigate the influence of colour and configuration on insect visitors, using artificial flowers.
This presentation is targeted for school age children (approximately 8 years old to 13 years old).
These experiments have been conducted across five schools in Australia led by a female PhD/Early Career Researcher, recipients of the Ecological Society of Australia and NSW Environment, Energy & Science award for Outstanding Outreach 2018 (Kit Prendergast, Amelie Vanderstock, Heather Neilly, Catherine Ross, and Vanessa Pirotta), supervised by Patrick Tegart. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-802852022-04-20T03:22:22Z Citizen science school project: influence of colour and configuration on insect visitors Prendergast, Kit citizen science insects pollinators science education ecology flowers science communication This presentation provides an introduction to pollination, the main insect taxa that visit flowers, and how flower colour, and flowering patch configuration (clumped, isolated, homogeneous, heterogeneous) can be predicted to influence the numbers and types of insect visitors. This presentation then describes a simple experiment that can be performed to investigate the influence of colour and configuration on insect visitors, using artificial flowers. This presentation is targeted for school age children (approximately 8 years old to 13 years old). These experiments have been conducted across five schools in Australia led by a female PhD/Early Career Researcher, recipients of the Ecological Society of Australia and NSW Environment, Energy & Science award for Outstanding Outreach 2018 (Kit Prendergast, Amelie Vanderstock, Heather Neilly, Catherine Ross, and Vanessa Pirotta), supervised by Patrick Tegart. 2020 Other http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80285 10.25917/5ef1b24f7fac3 bees fulltext |
| spellingShingle | citizen science insects pollinators science education ecology flowers science communication Prendergast, Kit Citizen science school project: influence of colour and configuration on insect visitors |
| title | Citizen science school project: influence of colour and configuration on insect visitors |
| title_full | Citizen science school project: influence of colour and configuration on insect visitors |
| title_fullStr | Citizen science school project: influence of colour and configuration on insect visitors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Citizen science school project: influence of colour and configuration on insect visitors |
| title_short | Citizen science school project: influence of colour and configuration on insect visitors |
| title_sort | citizen science school project: influence of colour and configuration on insect visitors |
| topic | citizen science insects pollinators science education ecology flowers science communication |
| url | bees http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80285 |