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20 M y were collecting insects with my classmates. favorite subject is science, which is why I want to be a teacher when I grow up. But I’m going to make my classes short and fun, like when we At first, I was a little scared the bugs we had to collect would bite me, but nothing happened, luckily. Charles Darwin Foundation ‘Now I know there are bugs that are bad for Galapagos’ Paola Güilcapi We had rules for working: order, discipline, and we couldn’t go too far off. We had to get near each bug with a little stick and put it quickly into a jar, close the lid, and tape the label with the animal’s name and shape on it, and with our name and the place we caught it. And we had to handle them really carefully, too. The first few times, I went looking for insects at my house, up in the town of Bellavista, but I didn’t find anything strange or new.
Like eleven year old Paola, 188 children and adolescents from two Puerto Ayora schools were part of the insect monitoring effort. Housewives and shopkeepers also took part in this pilot project that involved the community in conservation-aimed scientific research. Then we started to look in the Galo Plaza schoolyard. Some classmates found a few strange insects and then everything got more exciting. Those were the classes I enjoyed the most, because they were like contests of who had the weirdest or biggest bug, and the time went by fast. I found out that there are little creatures that are bad for Galapagos and for people, too, like poisonous spiders or wasps. I also learned that you shouldn’t bring raw food or fruits from “outside” (the mainland). Bugs travel in your clothes, too, so when I come back from the mainland, I shake everything out really well. I think that’s how some cockroaches got into my house. They’re driving my mom and me crazy. We’ve done everything to get rid of them, but they won’t go away... Annual report 2006 Paola Güilcapi Other key participants in monitoring were shopkeepers. Thanks to them, one of the newly introduced insects was detected. Introduced Invertebrate Monitoring • Two new introduced species were found: Antiteuchus tripterus (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) and Sitophilus zeamais (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Another species collected was Scutellista sp. (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae), which may be a new introduction and will have to be examined by a specialist. • CDF biologist Piedad Lincango was the project coordinator. • Among the introduced species recorded, at least 34.4% are highly invasive or have a high potential for directly impacting the endemic plant and invertebrate species in Galapagos. 21
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