Week This One - Ella Eleven

 Hi everybody again!

 We have been continuing to roll out workplace flow improvements. The lovely Jess and Jessie worked together to make photo documents of each Buffalo Turbine site, so that the traps are placed in the same place every time, which is especially helpful when different people set and pickup traps. This afternoon I made a macro that can reformat our usual data entry method for batch uploading to VectorSurv, where people around the US can see our mosquito counts. Still have to enter our testing data, which I worked on last week and Morgan is doing this week!!

Our plate last week went perfectly. The controls and standard curves performed just as they're supposed to. We did get some positive results but I believe those are being double checked before we release anything, so obviously I can't share what places and when. But! Results are coming in, and they're coming in with a short turnaround, which is great.

I stayed in lab most of this week, doing auxiliary stuff. Built more light traps (soldering is fun!). Some of our team went to another town to help with mosquito surveillance after lots of flooding. A lot of IDing data entry on my end, but I like it :)

Here are a lot of bug photos. I want to take a ton of photos showing representative features of our species and intraspecific variation. Mostly, I notice that when it comes to the gradient between black-brown-blonde. I better get on those photos- August gets closer all the time! Cycling our samples in and out and keeping up with stuff keeps us busy though. 

(Some of these photos could be better focused- oh well.)