Project:

Terrestrial & Aquatic Insect Investigation

Students:

Michael Pleitez, Robert Gruskin, Derek Kim

School:

West Islip High School, Suffolk

Mentors:

Mary Kroll

Abstract:

Insects are essential as vectors for pollination, consumption of dead organisms, and they serve a place in the food web as prey that ensures stability and biodiversity in Long Island ecosystems. The purpose of this investigation is to investigate the evolutionary diversities between forms of a diverged common ancestor.

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