fun with herbarium specimens
Jan. 27th, 2011 11:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianI keyed plants tonight, which I think is probably about as exciting as it sounds unless you're me, in which case it is really exciting. I did all the Hydrophyllaceae, all the Lamiaceae including my Scutellaria (which I got to have a whole conversation about with the head guy, since he did his thesis on it ages ago and was happy I'd grabbed this specimen), and some Onagraceae. I'm sad that therapy usually conflicts with these sessions!
On the last specimen I was looking at, I saw something amazing, which I think must have been insect eggs. Check it out:
![[like they were made with jagged cake-decorating tips]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/271956e02161/678086-374/underhill.hhhh.org/~igg/egg-remains.jpg)
![[larva is just a big dark shiny head and curled bit inside a shell]](https://p2.dreamwidth.org/9d7d47426881/678086-374/underhill.hhhh.org/~igg/larva-key.jpg)
On the last specimen I was looking at, I saw something amazing, which I think must have been insect eggs. Check it out:
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Date: 2011-01-28 05:40 pm (UTC)Did I ever tell you one of my first college bfs had taken a botany course and would run around saying 'that's a [some subcategory of plants]' all the time for a while? B/w that and the 'plant disease' tshirt girl, I was primed to support your
obsessionspassions! :)no subject
Date: 2011-01-28 06:24 pm (UTC)I don't think I'd heard the story but I am not at all surprised; that's the common reaction to an ID course. :)