Can Maggots like music?
- Alessandro Oriani
- Mar 1, 2017
- 1 min read

Jess and I tested whether maggot's respiration (creating carbon dioxide) is affected by music, and the type of music. To do this we set up two exact same maggot testers, and went to different places in the room. We then directed our phone speakers directly into the beakers in which the experiment was taking place. We made sure the sound vibrations hit directly the glass. Jess put "grime" music which is very reliant on bass and speed meaning the vibrations would have been more frequent. I played classic Italian southern music, which involves much more melodic singing as well as a lot of string instruments, meaning the vibrations would be less frequent but longer. We observed that with my music the maggots tended to be attracted to where the vibration were coming from, on the other hand, the "grime" music seemed to annoy the maggots. The red indicator we used, helped us analyse the amount of carbon dioxide created and to conclude on the rate of respiration. My maggots had a much faster rate of respiration. Therefore, we could conclude, that slow and melodic music, increases the rate of respiration.
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