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Northern Plains Agricultural Research Lab's Station Gallery.

Index for Greg Sword


Anabrus Simplex Biology

Basking

Cannibalism

Close-up Views of Mormon Crickets

Crickets in or Near Bodies of Water

High Densities of Mormon Crickets

Mormon Crickets Molting

Flora in Utah, Colorado, & Idaho

Dinosaur National Monument Park

Tracking Work in Utah, Colorado, & Idaho

Predation Paper Research

Steps in Tracking Work

 





Anabrus Simplex Biology


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Description: Anabrus simplex on tree 6/9/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Close up of caterpillar favored by crickets 6/20/2005
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Cricket with remains of caterpillar 6/20/2005
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Description: Crickets feeding on lupine 6/13/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Crickets in lupine 6/26/2005
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Beetle easts Anabrus cricket 6/18/2005
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Brush cricket nymphs
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Female Mormon cricket on thistle 6/26/2003
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Maybell Band 6/16/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Basking


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Description: Mormon cricket basking 6/21/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Mormon cricket basking 6/22/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Mormon cricket basking 6/21/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Female Mormon cricket on bark 6/9/2004
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Cannibalism


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Description: Cannibalism activity 6/19/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Cannibalism activity 6/14/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Cannibalism activity 6/14/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Cannibalism 6/14/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Cannibalism 6/19/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Ana Cannibal 6/20/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Close-up Views of Mormon Crickets


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Description: Anabrus simplex 6/19/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Anabrus simplex 6/19/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Anabrus simplex 6/19/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Anabrus simplex 6/19/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Anabrus simplex 6/19/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Anabrus simplex 6/19/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Anabrus simplex in sagebrush
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Anabrus simplex 6/19/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Adult A. simplex 6/26/2003
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Adult female A. simplex 6/22/2003
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Adult male A. simplex 6/22/2003
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Cricket 6/13/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Cricket on shoulder
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Female A. simplex 6/19/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Cricket
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Male cricket on bark 6/9/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Maybell Band 6/16/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Maybell Band 6/16/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Crickets in or Near Bodies of Water


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Description: A. simplex at pond
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: A. simplex swimming
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Description: A. simplex swimming
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Description: Millions of A. simplex
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Mormon crickets crossing stream
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Mormon crickets crossing steam
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High Densities of Mormon Crickets


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Description: A. simplex band on road 6/11/2004
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Description: A. simplex band on road 6/11/2004
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Description: A. simplex band on road 6/11/2004
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Description: A. simplex on the move 6/14/2004
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Description: Aggregation of crickets
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Description: Crickets in ditch
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Description: A, simplex on road 6/17/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: A. simplex on road 6/17/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: A. simplex on road 6/17/2004
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Description: Crickets marching 6/20/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Crickets marching 6/20/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Maybell band 6/16/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Maybell band 6/16/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Numerous crickets on tire
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Sword with crickets on road
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Mormon Crickets Molting


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Description: Female cricket molting on sagebrush 6/18/2005
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Description: Molting 6/18/2005
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Description: Molting 6/18/2005
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Description: Recent molt with shed exoskeleton 6/18/2005
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Description: Recent molt 6/18/2005
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Flora in Utah, Colorado, & Idaho


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Description: Asclepias speciosa in Dinosaur Nat'l Monument (Snowy Milkweed) 6/25/2005
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Castilleja chromosa in Dinosaur Nat'l Monument (Desert Paintbrush, Indian Paintbrush) 6/26/2005
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Geranium sp. in Poudre Canyon, CO (Crane's Bill)
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Description: Lupinus sp. in Dinosaur Nat'l Monument and a favored food for Anabrus simplex 6/20/2005
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Oenothera caespitosa in Dinosaur Nat'l Monument (Desert Evening Primrose) 6/26/2005
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Opuntia polyacantha in Dinosaur Nat'l Monument (Pricky Pear Cactus) 6/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Opuntia polyacantha in Idaho (Prickly Pear Cactus) 6/20/2005
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Pinus edulis in Dinosaur Nat'l Monument (Pinyon Pine) 6/26/2005
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Sphaeralcea munroana in Dinosaur Nat'l Monument (Orange Globe Mallow) 6/20/2005
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Description: Tragopogon pratensis in Poudre Canyon, CO (Meadow Salsify) 7/14/2003
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Dinosaur National Monument Park


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Description: Dinosaur Nat'l Monument 6/26/2005
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Description: Dinosaur Nat'l Monument 6/23/2003
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Dinosaur Nat'l Monument sagebrush vista 6/26/2005
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Description: Dinosaur Nat'l Monument 6/23/2003
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Description: Dinosaur Nat'l Monument
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Description: Dinosaur Nat'l Monument sagebrush
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Description: Low clouds 6/21/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: South view 6/21/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Formation in Dinosaur Nat'l Monument 6/25/2005
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Description: Green River 7/9/2003
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Description: Highway near Dinosaur Nat'l Monument
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Overcast overlook 6/10/2004
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Description: Peaks in Dinosaur Nat'l Monument 6/25/2005
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Description: Plug Hat 6/26/2005
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Description: Ship Rock 7/9/2003
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Description: Sunset in Dinosaur Nat'l Monument
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Description: Sunset in Dinosaur Nat'l Monument
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Description: Vista in Dinosaur Nat'l Monument 6/26/2005
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Tracking Work in Utah, Colorado & Idaho


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Description: Radio on cricket
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Description: Assembled weather station at initial tracking point
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Description: Collecting in Dinosaur Nat'l Monument
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Description: Dinosaur research area
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Description: DTG and Pat Lorch during tracking
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Description: Tagged female cricket
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Description: Band site at Brush Creek 6/23/2004
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Description: Greg with antenna 6/20/2004
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Description: Pat Lorch 6/20/2004
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Description: Field site 6/13/2004
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Description: Gabe and GPS setup 6/20/2004
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Description: Gabe 6/15/2004
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Description: GPS donkey
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Description: Mormon cricket and radio transmitter 7/12/2003
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Description: Scanning for signal at dusk
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Description: Scanning for signal near overlook
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Description: Scanning for signal near overlook 6/20/2004
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Description: Scanning for signal 6/14/2004
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Description: Scanning for signal 6/12/2004
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Description: Scanning for signal 6/12/2004
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Description: Scanning for signal 6/13/2004
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Description: Scanning for signal
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Description: Scanning for signal 6/12/2004
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Description: Weather station setup 6/10/2004
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Predation Paper Research


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Description: Searching for radio underground; signal audible even from approx. 12 inches underground; radio was recovered without insect due to predation of insect 6/24/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Damages to a recovered radio during tracking reflect an apparent predation of the Mormon Cricket carrying the device 6/20/2004
Photo by: Laura Senior

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Description: Radio with predation damage 6/20/2004
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Description: Radio with predation damage 6/20/2004
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Description: Radio with predation damage 6/23/2004
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Description: Radio with predation damage 6/23/2004
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Description: Radios with predation damage 6/17/2004
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Description: Greg Sword; tracking methods determine that the radio signal is originating in a small tree
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Description: Greg Sword climbs a small tree to retrieve a radio
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Steps in Tracking Work


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Description: The weather station is assembled prior to setting it up at the tracking site 6/2004
Photo by: Gabriel Miller

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Description: The equipment is taken to the tracking site via 4-wheel drive vehicle, getting as close as possible and then traveling the rest by foot
Photo by: Gabriel Miller

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Description: Once at the tracking site, final adjustments are made in the weather data logging software, including entering the GPS coordinates of the precise location 6/2004
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Description: The miniature radios are glued onto the thorax of the Mormon crickets using hot glue; the functionality of each radio is also checked prior to releasing the insects 6/2004
Photo by: Gabriel Miller

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Description: The radio used for tracking is tiny, weighing less than half a gram; its antenna approximates a human hair in thickness 6/2004
Photo by: Greg Sword

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Description: The radio is now glued onto the Mormon cricket; at the end of the tracking phase, the radio can readily be removed without injuring the injuring the insect; the number is the frequency of the particular radio's emission; "367" equates to 173.367 MHz 6/2004
Photo by: Gabriel Miller

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Description: The receiver operator has located the radio signal and is working to make visual contact with the insect 6/2004
Photo by: Gabriel Miller

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Description: The receiver operator logs the frequency as having been captured once it has been located for each tracking interval 6/2004
Photo by: Gabriel Miller

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Description: The tracking process continues until all insects at a site have been located 6/2004
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Description: Working in tracking teams, the investigators coordinate target frequency information 6/2004
Photo by: Gabriel Miller

 

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Description: GPS location information is recorded, initially and at each subsequent tracking interval; differential GPS data is logged, allowing sub-meter accuracy 6/2004
Photo by: Darryl Gwynne

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Description: After all insects at a tracking site have been located and locations logged, it is time to move on to the next site 6/2004
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