Buckeye butterfly and PLAN ... go sophomores!

We had a regular day today ... first day this week for Genetics.  We finished our Chapter 5 discussion questions after a linkage problem.  At the end of class we went over how to read a gel and tried a DNA Restriction Enzyme Mapping problem ... more of these on Friday.

Selected Topics finished the Rock Lab (Chattanooga Shale, Crinoid fossils and density testing among other stations). Seven Days of Weather continued and we worked on interpretation of rock layers.  Tomorrow we will begin to wrap up earth science with a study of plate tectonics and a short map reading lab.

Still checking qBASIC problems in computer programming ... tomorrow is the last day for this problem set before moving on to building and using single and 2-D arrays.

I started going through our beehives this afternoon, putting in Apiguard for varroa mites.  Apiguard is a thymol based miticide and is the mildest of treatments available.  Also took a walk near dark.

When I got home, I checked to see if Sue Neal had picked up the mail ... in the driveway was several butterflies near what appeared to be maybe deer excrement.  Most flew away but I was able to get one picture of a buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia)  with a summer azure (Celastrina neglecta) just to the left of the Buckeye's head.