Bean Beetle Experiment

Introduction High pitch noises and loud sound deterrents have been the weapon for many super markets and militaries, both domestic and foreign, around the world. The Mosquito developed in 2005 (Campbell, 2008), is marketed as a teen deterrent. It emits a high frequency pitch that only people from age 14-25 can hear. Shopkeepers place it outside their places of business in order to discourage young teens from loitering in from of their shops. It has become a subject of The Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) used as a communication hailing device is now being developed to help ship operators and navel captains as a non-lethal weapon against pirates and boarding parties. The loud and concentrated sonic weapons are pointed at the assailants in an effort to drive them away from ships. The devices are also being used domestically to disperse large unwanted crowds and riots. (Jardin, 2005) Our experiment is intended to use this information to see if we can impact the reproduction process of the bean beetle. We hypothesize that sound waves will have a negative impact on the amount of eggs produced by a group of bean beetles.

Materials and Methods Black eyed peas
The average amount of eggs found in both groups only have a deviation of two. Because of the size of the experiment, and the erratic, un-patterned numbers we got from both groups it is hard to discern if the music had an effect at all on the reproduction cycle. Also these results may be effected by more unknown factors; at the beginning of the experiment we were unable to discern the age of the beetles. The average life span of an adult bean beetles is 1-2 weeks. (Beck, 2013) This information, coupled with not being able to check on the progress of the experiment throughout the week, we are unable to discern if the beetles were able to live out a full reproductive cycle. The results are unclear and have potential to be highly