Biocube 1 - Foxcroft Farm 4/23
This week our assignment was to collect the biodiversity of our cube in a box for further evaluation in the lab. Digging deep into the water, we found a lot of biodiversity, and even some things we weren't expecting to find, like a slug and a frog. Our group had fun pretending that the frog we found this week was our grownup tadpole that we found two weeks ago, Todd. Going into this week I though it was going to be difficult to find many more species than I had identified last week, but minutes into stepping into the swamp I saw so many new bugs and fungi including a spider, a tick, a slug, and multiple different mushrooms growing on nearby trees.
My favorite part of this week was when Fanny noticed a white flower growing off of the top of a tree at the edge of the swamp. the tree was growing out of the side of the bank and the flowers were far out of my reach. I ended up catching a water bug instead. But in an attempt to get these white flowers I was standing on the bank of the swamp, hanging over the water, holding onto a nearby tree branch, surrounded by all of the branches and twigs, inches from being waits deep in water. But in that moment I felt like I was part of the swamp, like from my position of that ledge I could see all of the biodiversity swimming through the water. I wanted to reach in and see all that I could find.
I am excited for next week to reach in and find all of the biodiversity we missed just looking on the surface. We also had some living creatures in our box and I will be interested to see if they survived, but if not that will be a good excuse to dive in further and explore those species. Off to the lab!
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