Project:

Asian Long-Horned Beetle Presence in Different Environments on LI

Students:

Zach Nasruddin, John Duggal, Jack Lu, Carl Guan

School:

Stony Brook School, Suffolk

Mentors:

Danielle Davey

Abstract:

Flourishing from lakes to rainforests and deserts to polar ice caps, the beetle(or Coleoptera) has been around for almost 300 million years. Within nature, beetles can be found in rotting wood or plants, in carrion, fungi, and feces. The Asian-long-horned beetle is an invasive wood-boring beetle that lives in the Northeastern region of America and kills trees. Our goal is to see if these beetles are prevalent at our collection sites on Long Island, and how different environments will affect the concentration of Asian long-horned beetles. We plan to find the concentration of Asian long-horned beetles by setting up Lindgren traps.

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