How can you use the scientific method to explain why insects seem to suddenly appear in flour fruit and cornmeal?

1. Create a hypothesis regarding why the insects seem to suddenly appear. 2. Create an experiment to test that hypothesis. 3. Collect and analyze the results of the experiment. 4. Finally, draw conclusions whether the results support your hypothesis. For example, a hypothesis might be that insects appear in flour, fruit, and cornmeal because they hatch from eggs, which were deposited when the observer wasn't looking. To test that hypothesis, a sample experiment may be to place flour, fruit, or cornmeal in two separate jars. In one jar, put a lid on it. Leave the other jar open. For a week or so, look at the jars daily and write down whether you see insects. If you do, jot that down. These are your results. After a week or so, you can look at the results and compare them. If insects appear in both jars, the experiment did not support the hypothesis. (NOTE: that doesn't mean the hypothesis is wrong; only that that experiment did not support it.) If insects appear only in the closed jar, then you could conclude that your hypothesis was supported by the experiment. Again, that doesn't mean your hypothesis is right; only that it was supported by the experiment. Based on your conclusions, you can make a new hypothesis, which could further refine the cause of the insects.