Does the fruit fly sleep? This question was raised by Bijaylakhi, a 9th-grade student from CUBE Sapekhati, who set up an experiment in her home lab.
She wanted to see if fruit flies sleep, so she began counting the number of fruit flies in her setup at different time intervals.
After Chatshaala, she placed slices of tomato on white paper to attract the fruit flies.
The next day, she repeated the experiment with a second setup.
Susanta sir:Good discussion is going on in the chatshala. Please join and encourage.
Set up 1 - 2 fruitfly on tomato ,time 11:17 , Date:10/05/2024
Set up 2 - 1 fruitfly on tomato, time 11 : 18pm , photo:Bijaylakhi Nayak at home lab , main date : 10/05/2024 ke raat mein yeh photo send karna bhul gai thi isiliye Maine yeh photo date:11/05/2024 mein send kara hai
Set up 2 - 11 fruitfly on tomato, time 06:35am ,Date: 11/05/2024, photo:Bijaylakhi Nayak at kitchen.
Set up 1 - 9 fruitfly on tomato, time 06:35 am ,Date : 11/05/2024 , photo:Bijaylakhi Nayak at bedroom
Set up 1 - 4 fruitfly on tomato, time 6:49am, Date: 12/05/2024 , photo:Bijaylakhi Nayak at bedroom.
Set up 2 - 33 fruitfly on tomato, time 6:50 am ,Date: 12/05/2024 ,photo:Bijaylakhi Nayak at kitchen.
Set up 1 - fruitfly on tomato, time 09:27 pm , Date: 10/05/2024, photo:Bijaylakhi Nayak at home lab
Set up 1- fruitfly on tomato, time 09:28 ,Date : 10/05/2024 , photo: Bijaylakhi Nayak at home lab
Here is a summary of Bijayalakhi’s observations.
[11/05, 9:32 am] Kiran Ma’am: Bijaylakhi’s experiment Summary
SET UP: 02
Date of set up: 10.05.2024
Time : 05.00 pm
OBSERVATIONS
06.00 pm: 03 Fruit flies
08.00 pm: 00 Fruit flies
08.42 pm: 01 Fruit flies
09.09 pm: 00 Fruit flies
11.18 pm: 01 Fruit flies
Date: 11.05.2024
06.35 am: 11 Fruit flies
[11/05, 9:33 am] Kiran Ma’am: Bijaylakhi’s experiment Summary
SET UP 01
Date of set up: 09.05.2024
Time: 10.00 pm
OBSERVATIONS
07.45 am: 09 Fruit flies
04.00 pm: 25 Fruit flies
08.42 pm: 06 Fruit flies
09.09 pm: 07 Fruit flies
11.17 pm: 02 Fruit flies
Date: 11.05.2024
06.35 am: 09 Fruit flies.
Discussion in Chatshaala:
After this chatshaala session,Bijaylakhi made the setup.
White board Chatshaala of yesterday’s discussion
Bijayalakhi made two set up of tomato and kept one in bedroom and other in the kitchen to find out activity pattern of fruitfly.
Very photograph taken by Bijayalakhi 9th Standard student. Congratulations.
One male and female pregnant fruitfly can be seen clearly. Other body parts like head, thorax abdomen and wing also labelled.
Top view of fruitfly showing its eye (orangish) wings attached to thorax and its legs.
Photo credit: Bijayalakhi.
Group photographs of participants:
Bismita.