Location

Location of Trees at FRB & Visits Log

There were two different areas from where the data was gathered from. One area was the orange trail by the picnic area and the other was the white trail by the main entrance. Since we gathered leaf galls from two dfferent areas, we could also try to see if there are any differences between the galls from the different areas.

Visit #1- October 30, 2007 We gathered a few leaves from Flat Rock Brook. But, since it was already Fall, all of the leaves we collected were dead ones from the ground. When we went to dissect the galls, almost all had been broken open and there was nothing inside. We decided to disregard this data since it would not have been helpful to our results in anyway.

Visit #2- May 3, 2008 This was our first visit to Flat Rock Brook since October. We had to wait until the summer time, because the galls do not form until late spring. When we went there we found a few leaves which we took back to school to dissect and identify, however, we didn't get as many samples as we wanted to or needed.

Visit #3- May 24, 2008 This visit was a huge success! We found many leaf galls, from a variety of trees. We used these leaves in our final project, and we were able to dissect many of them because we had many samples. There were more trees that had leaf galls and it is plausible because the leaf galls are more common as the spring turns to summer. These leaf galls helped us with our results and conclusions about leaf galls in general.

Visit #4- May 29, 2008 Mady decided to stop by and gratefully bumped into Mr. McNeil, as well as a park ranger. They both helped her find two new species of leaf galls, as well as new experiements she could do to help increase our data. Therefore, she decided to perform the walking test, which was basically count of number of steps it took her from the beginning of the white loop trail until she spotted a tree with leaf galls. She also found a Red Oak Tree leaf gall, which was helpful in our project.

Visit #5- May 30, 2008 This was a very short visit. Since, we already had the data about the frequency of trees with leaf galls in the white loop trail, we felt it was necessary to do the same test on the orange loop trail in order to compare them.

Main Page Methods & Materials Results Conclusion Past Studies Bibliography