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Elementary School - Grades 4-6
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What is the role of ants in our society and in the ecosystem?
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Do Ants Attack Other Insects off Castor Bean Plants?
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Find out if white sage and eucalyptus concentrates repel argentine ants.
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Research Formica Ants
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Test whether certain odorous of household items such as vanilla extract, various liquid air fresheners, catnip, hydrogen peroxide, rubbing alcohol, garlic, and lemons could effectively block a termite's pheromone trail and/or deter the termites from home invasion.
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Do ants produce acid when antagonised?
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Effects of temperature, light, different foods and type of sand on ant activities
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Are ants attracted more to sugar or to aspartame?
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Insect Science Fair Projects & Experiments
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Middle School - Grades 7-9
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How Does Electromagnetic Radiation Affect A Colony of Harvester Ants?
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Ants produce attractant pheromones to mark trails that lead to food sources. Do they also produce a "do not enter" signal to mark paths that do not lead to food?
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Does the Distance between Ants and Food Affect the Percentage of Ants that Go to the Food?
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Find out what can repel ants yet not harm them in any way by using natural house hold items or products that can be easily bought.
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Do Ants Really Need Their Antennae?
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What Ethnic Food Do the Ants Like the Most?
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Determine to which flavor ants are most attracted.
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Determine if electricity could be used as an ant repellant.
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Which ant pesticides works the best?
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Insect Science Fair Projects & Experiments
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High School - Grades 10-12
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Pheromone Following Traits as a Measure of the Evolutionary Efficiency of Eusociality of Ants
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Determine whether a diluted and thus lower concentrated solution of the ant deterrent, Raid, is as effective as a fully concentrated solution of Raid.
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Determine which common household sweetener (saccharin, sucrose, aspartame, sucralose) the ant species, Linepithema humile, was most attracted to.
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Test the hypothesis that termites determine the direction of their nest from the degrees of the angles found in their pheromone trails.
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Foraging Behavior and Food Preferences of Argentine Ants
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Investigate aggression among ants.
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Insect Science Fair Projects & Experiments
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Useful Links
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Science Fair Projects Resources
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Citation Guides, Style Manuals, Reference
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