A damselfly captures and consumes 10 mosquitoes every 30 minutes. Mosquito densi

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A damselfly captures and consumes 10 mosquitoes every 30 minutes. Mosquito density is 1500 individuals/M^3. A damselfly requires 1 minute to capture and eat each mosquito.

a. What volume of air can a damselfly perceive instantaneously?

b. Make a plot of this Type II functional response, making sure that in this plot you show the capture rate approaching its asymptote.

I am horrible at puting equations into excel so any help is greatly appreciated. I do know that for part b, there is apparently a very large value on the axis (~40,000-60,000).

Thanks so much!

Explanation / Answer

A.10 mosquitoes in 30 min; 0.3 mosquito in 1 minute. But the data says 1mosquito/ min

desnsity= 1mosquito / 1500m3

so the air perceived per minute is 1500*0.3= 450m3

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