Thursday, June 22. This morning’s lecture covered more insect families (flies, bees, wasps, and ants). After that, Adrea had a nice Powerpoint presentation covering the research that she is currently doing as a grad student at OSU. Her research is to see the reproductive capacity of the African Malaria Vector, Anopheles gambiae (a mosquito). This research is important because malaria affects 300-500 people annually and controlling the mosquito population helps in the fight against malaria. I hope Adrea gets the results she is hoping for.
In the afternoon, it’s back to South Bass. We checked our pitfall traps that we set up on Monday, but they were pretty much destroyed by the storm. Afterwards we went collecting in a field in Captain Al’s property. I got a few new bugs, but the one I’m most proud of is the metallic wood boring beetle. Chris said you find them in the woods. Well, I was kind of close to the woods when this beetle landed on my leg. It kind of startled me and I kind of crushed it, but I got it in the end. It’s really shiny and pretty (well, I think so anyway). The one insect that I’m most frustrated about was the preying mantis that got away from me! I saw it crawling and I went to get it and I lost it! I searched that area for five minutes. They are not very common plus they were a new order and family. Watch me be one order short of the required fifteen. Right before we went back to Gibraltar, we went to the cottage Chris was staying at and we met his wife and three kids. They’re so adorable! They gave us Kool-Aid and ice pops, which was something all of us greatly appreciated after bug catching in the hot weather.
In the evening there were the two guest lectures, a the second quiz (maybe I should have read the handouts Chris gave us), and pinning and labeling. While I was making and printing labels for my insects, I also found out what Mitchell’s Satyr is. It’s an endangered butterfly found in very isolated populations in several states. Since we had only one more day to work on our collections, everyone was staying up late working on it. I was the first to leave, including Chris and Adrea, at midnight. I felt kind of bad, but I was tired. We have all day to work on our collections tomorrow and I have about half of my insects pinned and labeled, so I think I can get it done by Saturday morning. I hope I’m right.
In the afternoon, it’s back to South Bass. We checked our pitfall traps that we set up on Monday, but they were pretty much destroyed by the storm. Afterwards we went collecting in a field in Captain Al’s property. I got a few new bugs, but the one I’m most proud of is the metallic wood boring beetle. Chris said you find them in the woods. Well, I was kind of close to the woods when this beetle landed on my leg. It kind of startled me and I kind of crushed it, but I got it in the end. It’s really shiny and pretty (well, I think so anyway). The one insect that I’m most frustrated about was the preying mantis that got away from me! I saw it crawling and I went to get it and I lost it! I searched that area for five minutes. They are not very common plus they were a new order and family. Watch me be one order short of the required fifteen. Right before we went back to Gibraltar, we went to the cottage Chris was staying at and we met his wife and three kids. They’re so adorable! They gave us Kool-Aid and ice pops, which was something all of us greatly appreciated after bug catching in the hot weather.
In the evening there were the two guest lectures, a the second quiz (maybe I should have read the handouts Chris gave us), and pinning and labeling. While I was making and printing labels for my insects, I also found out what Mitchell’s Satyr is. It’s an endangered butterfly found in very isolated populations in several states. Since we had only one more day to work on our collections, everyone was staying up late working on it. I was the first to leave, including Chris and Adrea, at midnight. I felt kind of bad, but I was tired. We have all day to work on our collections tomorrow and I have about half of my insects pinned and labeled, so I think I can get it done by Saturday morning. I hope I’m right.
posted by Jennifer | 4:13 PM
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