Record snowfall in NoCo for February! The neat thing is that it snowed a bit every other day and then it all melted the next day!
Ento 555 expedition
This is for Boris’ class on immature insects. There is a collection due in May. We need to collect 24 families of immature insects; So far I found 10 families from the orders Orthoptera, Diptera, Coleoptera, Ephemeroptera, Homoptera and Hemiptera. Will need to go on a fishing trip for Odonata, Trichoptera and Plecoptera when the weather warms up.
Warning: Contains Paunch
Paunch! It’s what’s for dinner if you are a cow or a goat or a deer. These are ruminant animals and the so-called “Paunch” or Rumen contains all sorts of living micro bugs (but NOT insects) that can be used for demonstrations in a microbiology class.
Gold bug under the microscope
OK, this was my electroforming experiment and I’m using one of the dissecting microscopes from CSU to inspect the coating for exposed sections and missing plate areas. Look good to me.
BioMed students at the LSOP
The LSOP or Little Shop of Physics this year combined with the BioMed and BioEng departments for a great show at the new improved LSC (Lorrie Student Center) at CSU (Colorado State University). One of the things on display was a fully dissected human nervous system. No pictures allowed of this out of respect for the human donor, natch.