STORY OF THE WEEK # 3

 

 

The memorable thing that happened last week was when we had our activity in Genetics wherein we have to catched flies. Then my three classmates and I tried to catch flies outside of the canteen. And there´s one fly who lands at the jar, since our jars were didn´t have fly yet, kaya binugaw namin yung langaw na dumapo sa jar ng isa naming classmate. After that, we keep on laughing till we decided to transfer at S.M also called as ¨ Sa Manggahan ¨. Then the three of them were located at the same table and because they were already many there, I decided to hunt flies at the next table. At first I really got bored because there´s no fly that lands on my jar. Of course I keep on waiting while I´m singing. While waiting, I observed that the flies are attracted on very aromatic scent. That´s why I´ve decided to mash the fruits located inside of my jar and ipinunas ko sa mouth ng jar so that the flies can smell it and be attracted to it. After a few minutes, flies were went into my jar. And I have to be careful on catching them because they were so sensitive. It really needs patience and so much focus for able to you to catch the flies. And its so weird because the other students who were eating there were keep on looking to us and some of them asked us if we are graduating students because we are wearing lab gown they were thought that it was a toga.

 

It was quite difficult on catching flies because after trapping them inside of the jar, I have to trap them on a hair net and put it inside of a plastic. But when I found out the technique on catching the flies, I had an easy time to catch them. In fact, I catches 10 flies but I gave a fly to my classmate. I think we catches flies for about two hours. After that, we went to laboratory for able to us to view those flies under the microscope.

We have to identify if they are red eyed male or female. But before viewing them, we have to paralyze them first by putting them on a bin with ice. It was hard to view them on microscope because they´re got awake immediately. Because of that I decided to identify them manually through the use of my naked eyes. Then finally already have my data and of course I´m done.