{"id":1762,"date":"2009-08-24T20:39:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T02:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2009-08-24T20:39:20","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T02:39:20","slug":"inquiry-with-termites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=1762","title":{"rendered":"Inquiry with Termites"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Before the weekend, I received an e-mail from a colleague asking “Do you know of a good place I can go gather termites… anywhere woody?”<\/p>\n

I responded with my suggestions, and because I was intrigued, I\u00a0replied with\u00a0a question of my own, “What do you plan to do with them?”<\/p>\n

Well, after a making my own way through portions of two decaying logs, and acquiring some special and not-s0-special writing utensils,\u00a0see what\u00a0we ended up\u00a0witnessing by watching the following videos…\u00a0<\/p>\n

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  1. Termite and paper <\/a>(30 sec.)<\/li>\n
  2. Termite, paper, and pencil drawn Infinity<\/a> (30 sec.)<\/li>\n
  3. Termite, paper, and Sanford Uniball Black drawn Infinity<\/a> (30 sec.)<\/li>\n
  4. Termite, paper, and Papermate Red drawn Infinity<\/a>\u00a0(30 sec.)<\/li>\n
  5. Termite, paper, and Papermate Red drawn Spiral<\/a> (30 sec.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Sorry for the out-of-focus\u00a0imagery but I hope\u00a0these 2.5 minutes of\u00a0observation motivate you as much as they did\u00a0us before\u00a0we introduced these creature to our classes today!\u00a0 Experiment with other colors, other writing utensils, and have fun googling to see what is already known about the behavior you witnessed.<\/p>\n

    Happy Inquiry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Before the weekend, I received an e-mail from a colleague asking “Do you know of a good place I can go gather termites… anywhere woody?” I responded with my suggestions, and because I was intrigued, I\u00a0replied with\u00a0a question of my own, “What do you plan to do with them?” Well, after a making my own
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