We started work on our FFP today. There are two running simultaneously again; we are afternoon, and people are going birding in the morning. This morning the four of us (Colin, Lindsay, Evan G and me) sat down with Alan (correction: Dax sat in for Evan, as he was out birding), and we made a game plan for the next few days. No one has done any work on mopani worms before, so we are creating a possible new procedure for assessing the population of an outbreak area. Its complicated to put down into just a little blurb, so if you want to know more about it, we can talk when I get back. We finally got going to the field around 1030, taking some of those not on the actual project with us.
In the field, we dug for pupas in the ground, as well as looked for eggs and larvae in the trees. Mopane worms are actually caterpillars that morph into a rather large moth. We set up 20 m by 20 m plots, dug 5 1 m by 1 m by 40 cm holes and searched for the eggs in all of the Mopani trees. It took a while, but with each site it got faster and faster. We did one before lunch, and another one and a half after lunch. After that, we came back for the rest of the evening to relax and study for our exam on Sunday.
The Joke
It's a frickin' elephant
A class of five-year old students are learning to read.
One of them pointed at a picture in a zoo book and said,
"Look at this! It's a frickin' elephant!"
The teacher took a deep breath, then asked... "What did you call it?"
"It's a frickin' elephant! It says so on the picture!"
And so it does...
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