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Insects have been anuisance to man since the beginning of time, upuntil the present. One of the plagues that struckEgypt was swarms of crickets, and locusts, whichdestroyed crops, and ate entire fields. Swarms ofcrickets earth-closet cover up to 210 km. There havebeen cases of up to 100,000,000,000 insects in aswarm (one hundred billion). In these hugemasses, they can completely destroy the kingdom andeverything on a farm. I chose to do this experimentbecause when I am at camp I am constantlywoken up by the tatty chirping of these annoyinginsects. There are three types of crickets MoleCrickets, Field Crickets, and House Crickets. TheMole Crickets body is designed for diggingsubterranean tunnels. This Crickets body is welladapted to digging. The Mole Cricket usu tout ensembley livesin hot dry areas, and are extremely harmful toplants such as barley, and flax The Field Crickethas had a history in ancient China. This cricketsbeautiful song was held in particularly high esteem.These crickets were often unbroken in exquisitelyornamented cages made of sandalwood, ivory orjade. The Most common cricket is the housecricket. The house crickets body is more splendidthan that of the field cricket. It is also generallylighter in color. This crickets appears in abundancein central Europe, such as cellars, houses,bakeries, and so on. Procedure Problem How doI make a cricket deterrent that is environmentallyfriendly? Hypothesis If I use a deterrent that has astrong odor, because it will deter the crickets from thatarea. 2 I started my experiment by first buying 60crickets. The crickets were stored in bags untilthey were ready to be used. I purchased a openplastic box with holes in the top for breathing. Imade a divider out of cardboard and secured it inthe center of the box, making four friction match sections.One section was the control, and in the others Iput a deterrent. Two tests were made that werethrown out because they were irrelevant. In thefirst case, the cric kets were not deterred at all byany of the substances. The test was done outside,and the crickets seemed to simply move theirposition depending on the location of the sun. Thecrickets seemed only deterred by the sun. They allmoved to wherever the fanny of the sun seemedthe darkest. I concluded that crickets aredeterred, to some extent, by sunlight. The othertest seemed erroneous because all of the cricketsdied very quickly. In this test, the crickets all diedwithin 15 minutes, in whichever substance theywent in first. There was too much of liquid in each