An update on the ants I am taking care of...I have four colonies now. Three new colonies are, I presume, the same species. I have yet to successfully mount two dead sisters for proper identification, but I presume they are Temnothorax longispinosus. The first colony that I took in is down to one queen, four eggs (still), and one worker. I am not sure what happened to the other worker...just disappeared one day and hasn't returned. I am curious to find out what species this colony is. Hopefully soon I can set up a way to take pictures from the microscope and post them here.
I had the wonderful opportunity this last weekend to be with the love of my life. We participated in another science night at an elementary school--we were in charge of the 'old faithful' experiment. Variations on this experiment would be so much more meaningful to not only the "scientists" (us), but also the kids. As it is ran now, there is really no inquiry going on. Molly has some great ideas (temperature variation, ingredient distinction, diet vs. regular, # of mentos used, crushed mentos, etc. etc.!) . We also went to Olbrich garden and conservetory which was super amazing. I will have to post pictures later of the bird of paradise flower in bloom and the thai pavillion + elephants. That was so fun...I can totally see our wedding their or some place like it. Very beautiful. We are definitely going back (it would be cool to see the plants in every season!). We also went to see the new James Bond movie...then we analyzed it all night, trying to make sense of it all--which we both felt pretty good about afterwards. Unfortunately Molly's fish aquarium has anchor worm (I think) living in it. There was one exiting the smaller/less dominant fish from its bottom pelvic fin. Poor fish; poor anchor worm. We didn't get to the store to pick up medicine: potassium permanganate! But Molly did today and is treating them as I type :) Writing all of this makes me realize that I was just holding her hand yesterday and now I'm not.
I had the wonderful opportunity this last weekend to be with the love of my life. We participated in another science night at an elementary school--we were in charge of the 'old faithful' experiment. Variations on this experiment would be so much more meaningful to not only the "scientists" (us), but also the kids. As it is ran now, there is really no inquiry going on. Molly has some great ideas (temperature variation, ingredient distinction, diet vs. regular, # of mentos used, crushed mentos, etc. etc.!) . We also went to Olbrich garden and conservetory which was super amazing. I will have to post pictures later of the bird of paradise flower in bloom and the thai pavillion + elephants. That was so fun...I can totally see our wedding their or some place like it. Very beautiful. We are definitely going back (it would be cool to see the plants in every season!). We also went to see the new James Bond movie...then we analyzed it all night, trying to make sense of it all--which we both felt pretty good about afterwards. Unfortunately Molly's fish aquarium has anchor worm (I think) living in it. There was one exiting the smaller/less dominant fish from its bottom pelvic fin. Poor fish; poor anchor worm. We didn't get to the store to pick up medicine: potassium permanganate! But Molly did today and is treating them as I type :) Writing all of this makes me realize that I was just holding her hand yesterday and now I'm not.
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Pictures! =) Aaaaaaand, a description of the field trip, perhaps?
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