THE ORGANISM
- heterorhabditis bacteriophora
1. BRAINSTORMING
QUESTIONS
- Which temperatures do nematodes need?
- Nematodes need temperatures at 12°C and higher to be in an active state. If temperatures are temporarily decreasing they get into an inaktiv mode.
- What exactly are they eating?
- How do they live?
- How long do they live?
- What length are they able to become?
- Do they make any noise?
- Do the react to vibration?
- Do they react to acoustic noise?
- When put in one place, how are they spreading?
- Do they leave tunnel marks?
- Do they leave any visible marks?
- Are there indicators for the toxin they are using to eat larva?
- What senses do they have?
RESEARCH
- "Results showed that modified Wouts medium and nutrient agar medium-I multiplied significantly higher numbers of 39.02 - 39.14 lakh IJs of H.. bacteriophora strain KKMH1 per 250 ml flask."
PROJECT IDEAS
- Photographic
- Scan a "nematode world" (Colours, tracks, frozen postitions,..)
- Scan a "nematode world" (Colours, tracks, frozen postitions,..)
- Acoustic
- make sound out of nematodes movements