Where are they now?

Before: A Tortricidae













After: Parasitized Tortricidae!









Hi, everyone!

Every day we do "zoo". We open up all the ziplock bags replace dried up leaves, dump frass, and look at the caterpillars to see what is happening to them. If they are dead or have pupaeted, we record it in the data base. I thought you might be interested in seeing what happened to some of the ones I have shown you while I've
been here....



This is the Bomolocha baltimoralis that I showed you in our conference - remember? Now it's a pupae!















Remember when I showed you this cool guy? The Purple crested slug...


















This is how it looks now! It has 13 parasite pupae coming out.... EWWW!














This is one we call "Brown head" that is about to pupate!














This is a fall web worm (Hyphantria cunea) that we collected on the first day we were here.












We found it dead when we came back from New Orleans and it has a big parasite coming out of it's abdomen.


Bummer!

It makes us sad when this happens, or the caterpillars die, but really it shouldn't. We can't take sides for or against the caterpillars or the parasitoids, what we really want is to find out how the populations interact by collecting good data. So, the data is the data - it's all good!

Rock on Ivy scientists!

Mrs. Feynman



HW Challenge: Find a scientist to interview. Today you heard from two women who decided to go into science. I would like for you each to find someone who is a scientist - it can be a parent or a relative or a friend. Doctors are scientists, as long as they participate in research. We will interview them later, but for now, just ask around and see if you can find someone who would be willing to talk to you about his/her work and why they went into science. Bring in a sheet for Mr. Griffin with a couple of names of people, and contact information if you have any. This is preliminary, you do not have to actually talk to them. If you can't think of anyone, you can look for scientists on the internet - BUT you cannot use any scientist who is dead, or whose name you have heard before EG Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, etc.