Mar 16, 2023
Tetiaroa Sugar Water Crazy Ant Sampling
This protocol is a draft, published without a DOI.
- 1UC Berkeley
Protocol Citation: Laura Barragan, clairewiegand, Allea Eimers 2023. Tetiaroa Sugar Water Crazy Ant Sampling. protocols.io https://protocols.io/view/tetiaroa-sugar-water-crazy-ant-sampling-crb6v2re
License: This is an open access protocol distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited
Protocol status: Working
We use this protocol and it's working
Created: March 16, 2023
Last Modified: March 16, 2023
Protocol Integer ID: 78942
Abstract
Sugar water vial protocol for crazy ant sampling.
Before start
Wear long pants and long sleeve top.
Place vial at designated point on Gaia and label the transect number on the vial
Take photo to capture surroundings
Repeat step until you run out of vials/you've hit each data point on Gaia
After 90 minutes, retrieve vials in the order you placed them
Count ants in vial; if there are too many ants in the vial, freeze the vial and recount later
Record the number of ants in vial on Epicollect5
Clean out test tubes and throw everything away