hi all,
My project with figs n wasps firstly beging with me going to the tree. There r 3 fig trees in all, so i go to each tree one by one for 3 times for observations at diff. time. Let me clear one thing - I dont need to climb on the tree. Only on 1 tree i climb that too not at a great height (but a bit risky). One is having ladder on it so i be on ladder n the last tree can be observed fron terrace of a deppt.
So after i am on the tree , i do scan sampling of each tree to see the no. n type of wasp ( pollinator , non pollinator- 3 4 types) , what r the wasp doing. Remember one thing - thr pollinators go inside the fruit(syconia) whereas the non pol. oviposit from outside with long needle like ovipositors( these r harmful to the tree.
Then there are many types of ants (oecophylla n technomermyx) on the tree which predate on these wasps n there r many strategies these wasps use to escape from them. Also there is one ant ( Mermycaria ) which tend to some different organism ( hemoptera) to collect honey dew.
In short i will collect all these data for each fig on each bunch on each fig tree 3 times a day ( very tiring ) n finally will pool all the data to get some conclusion.
Simultaneously i will be doing cuticular hydrocarbon extraction, volatile extraction, n analyse them with GC-MS. Also i will be doing some bioinfo work to build a phylogenetic tree. All this in the next 3 weeks. So not sure till what extent i will be able to go, but beleive me nowadays there is lot of burden with the mid sem also approaching n freshers party too. I have not yet started with anything in theory with all focus being on the project.
I dont know how much of it u understood bcoz it toof me around a week to understand all this. You know what- I m the only person in the class with a project. All others r just learning the techniques. Bcoz of this they get time to conc. on theory. I think i will have to manage myself now
One request to sid- pls invite all the members n ask them to post the work they r doing currently n request all of u (except sid n kammy) pls post sumthing
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