In Genetics, we could not get finished with our paper plasmid lab and will finish the write up on Monday. On Monday we will start our review for our first test over Chapters 1-3 and labs. Test will be Wednesday.
Selected Topics finished the Toothpickase lab and handed it in. Students should understand how temperature and pH change the shape of proteins and can cause problems! Started our review over of first biology unit. One more lab on Monday, molecule modeling ... before we pause for a test.
Mission Impossible Problem in computer programming was finished by a few students. We will wrap up Karel on Tuesday and move on to Microsoft qBASIC.
I posted some of our schedule on the KHSAA scoreboard if you want to check it out.
Late getting home but took a walk around a loop I have toward Long Creek and back. Our small stream in the valley back our our house is spring fed and continues to run even though we have had less than two inches of rain in the last month. Each time I pass by, there are a couple of dozen honeybees here getting water.
While I was checking out the stream for bees, planaria and jewelweed ... two hummingbirds were working the jewelweed. They were hard to get a picture of with my point and shoot ... second picture is best if you can zoom in ... near the center of the picture.
Finally ... insects galore on the ironweed and wingstem in the bottom (how it continues to bloom in this dry weather is beyond me ... ) The picture below is a Ailanthus webworm moth. I thought it might be a beetle ... the interesting thing about it is that its original range is tropical and Florida. However, this farm has several Tree of Heaven plants (actually a tall tree) that are a serious invasive (I passively try to eliminate) and the larva of this moth uses it as a host.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ailanthus_webworm
There were several of these small butterflies ... maybe a moth ... on the wingstem. This was the best of the picts.
Checking hives in the morning!
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