Rebecca+Andrea+Cook

=Maintaining Our School-Yard Habitat= By: Rebecca Paez, Daisy Garcia, and Aneesah Cook

Pollinators, such as bees, butterflies, and ladybugs help plants grow in many different ways, but how do insects decide which plants to pollinate? Some insects possess “ultraviolet vision” which causes certain plants and flowers to look very colorful and reflective, so these plants will attract more insects that have this particular trait. We want to know which plants look ultraviolet to insects through their vision. To test this, we shinned a black light over each of the plants we used to see which of them attracted the most ladybugs and butterflies. When the insect was attracted the plant under the UV light, we observed to see if it would then pollinate the plants and stay attracted to the plant without the black light.