I thought I would share a little science experiment I have been working on for a while now. I took this gallon jar and collected a sample from some swamp like land on our property.
It has about two inches of sediment after it got really settled into the jar, water obviously and many leaves and sticks. There was of course many different small types of organisms in it. Well that was almost a year ago. In the time since I have been observing how the populations of creatures have changed. Many have disappeared. But these strange centipede looking things are not only surviving, but thriving.
Hopefully you can see him. There are many like that in their and in the past few months I've noticed their numbers rise while some little white leech like critters, who had been around in greatest number, are all but gone. It's been interesting and I'm suprised it's gone on for so long!
It has about two inches of sediment after it got really settled into the jar, water obviously and many leaves and sticks. There was of course many different small types of organisms in it. Well that was almost a year ago. In the time since I have been observing how the populations of creatures have changed. Many have disappeared. But these strange centipede looking things are not only surviving, but thriving.
Hopefully you can see him. There are many like that in their and in the past few months I've noticed their numbers rise while some little white leech like critters, who had been around in greatest number, are all but gone. It's been interesting and I'm suprised it's gone on for so long!
