Proposal Draft

Part A: Color choice experiment

Our color changing spiders can be either white or yellow, so we could put a bit of white and yellow cardboard on opposite sides of their boxes and see if they prefer being on either side depending on their actual color.

 

I would do this part for just 1 week, checking twice a day on the position of the spider (in the morning and in the afternoon).

 

Part B: Color change experiment

In the next part we would change the cardboard so that the spider has a different color to see if it changes. We would use white, yellow, and other color as a control for the cardboard.

 

This part should be done for 3 weeks at least (21 days) because the color change from white to yellow takes sometime involved in producing pigments.