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Manduca Growth Experiment - beta
By Dr. Biology
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- Manduca: a large moth. It is commonly used in scientific experiments because it is easy to take care of and grows quickly.
Dr. Biology has been thinking a lot about temperature lately. The temperature of the Earth is always changing—it changes daily, seasonally, and over the years. Changes in temperature affect all of the organisms that live on Earth, and it has a lot of interesting effects on growing plants and animals.
With the help of the National Science Foundation and his research team, Dr. Biology started an experiment to see how different temperatures can change how fast an animal grows and how big it will get.
Dr. Biology has posted information for you to learn about temperature, body size, and growth. He also has plenty of experiments for you to do and photographs for you to study. If you can, Dr. Biology would also like you to repeat his experiment at home to see if your results are similar to his. So, what are you waiting for? Let’s get started.
To learn more about different kinds of insects, visit True Bugs and Metamorphosis, Nature's Ultimate Transformers.
This section of Ask A Biologist was funded by NSF Grant Award number 0746352.
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