科学60秒:送蚂蚁们去大学
The project, on the web at , is calling on teachers, students and citizen-scientists of all ages to help catalog the kinds of ants that live in urban areas: at your school, where you work or outside your front door.
They supply a collection kit that comes with nine vials pre-loaded with cookie crumbs. Just plop a few vials on the lawn and some on the sidewalk, wait an hour, and then ship your samples back to the scientists. They’ll ___2___ the ants and load the data onto an ___3___ online map where you can see your specimens and check out the biodiversity in your backyard.
You could turn up a something special, like the ___4___ Bigfoot Ant, North America’s rarest ant species. Or be the first to find a common species unknown in your area. Either way, the ants you ___5___will never crawl up your leg again.
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