Lab Observations

Over the last few weeks as a class we have all been observing the types of insects that were attracted to a dead pig shoulder over a certain amount of days. At first when we put the pig shoulder in a field behind our school flies were attracted to the meat before we even left the scene. Over the next few days maggots began to appear along with other insects such as bees, ants etc. The maggots grew larger and developed as the days went on and soon covered quite a bit of the pigs shoulder. Eventually they all migrated and soon were in only a certain portion of the shoulder. The observations I made over the last 2 weeks were seeing how as the days went on after leaving the pig shoulder on the ground, different insects were drawn to it or were developing.