Sorting Insects

Started from yesterday.. 3rd March 2008

Since yesterday I've been taking back the traps from various plots, cleaned them and returned them to the ecology lab. Then I s ort the insects out, put them into bottles with alcohol to be classified into orders.

Today, I finally finished bottling them and went to Miss Lua's office. Showed her the pretty stink bug I've gotten. Hoping that I could keep it but she said that it's not that common and checked in the collection for that bug's name but .. whoaa!! They didn't have it in the museum so yupp, I've to add my bug into the collection. She said it would be a contribution. Haha, ya ya.. for the sake of whatever. Nvm, anyway I don't have the means to buy alcohol and continue preserving that fella. The museum will be doing a better job. And as Miss Lua said, 100 yrs later my grandchildren will go to RMBR and see their grandmother's work. *speechless*
Who knows what will happen..

Then I continued sorting my insects from Tiup-tiup dominant patch's Malaise trap. Haha, there's this Hemiptera Miss Lua said was 'unusual'. She haven't seen it before but was quite sure of the order. The wings were quite pretty, black with a tinge of red. The most 'unusual' bit was the mouth/leg part; which cannot be identified whether it was a leg or mouth. Looked like a feather duster tho.., at least to me. NO, not a mosquito! *yayy!!!* New species.. Kidding. I hope so neway. Chances are 0.01%.
So, I brought back 3 entomology books from Science Lib, hoping to find out more about that insect.
That's quite about it for today.

Ps-Miss Lua actually said ant bites are Okay because termites are the real enemies for an entomologist. Not that I am yet. LOL..