Foo - Hey KT, guess what?! :D

We got to disect a TERMITE in our lab today! :p We needed some bacteria that are in a termites intestines. I grabbed a nice juicy looking termite from the container with the tweezers, then squished him so he'd stop squirming around! :D Then I got him on the disecting microscope and ripped him in half so I could get his intestines, which I then smashed all over the slide! Later, I looked at his head and pinchers and stuff, and squished him some more!

And I was thinking of you the whole time! :p

Just kidding. This termite didn't look anything like you! He wasn't purple and his teeth weren't all sparkly. :rolleyes: And he wasn't wearing a crown, so he obviously wasn't in the upper class of the termite social heirarchy.

dood! You just killed some poor Termite Family's Termite Daddy! WTF mang? Somewhere now is a little termit kid screaming "WHYYYYYYY MY DADDY, WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!" and it's all your fault bro.....

(shakes head)

I'm calling all of my relatives right now....you better start praying man....you better start praying. If I can't get a hold of ANY of them...... :D

Don't worry, I didn't see any family resemblance.

This thread is useless without pics. :D

Ew. What kind of bacteria did you need that is specifically from termites?

This thread is useless without pics. :D

This isn't the one I used, but it's close to what it looked like.

http://www.securitypest.com/images/TermiteAcrop.jpg

Ew. What kind of bacteria did you need that is specifically from termites?

Trichonympha, which is what digests the wood in the termite's intestines. Which looked something like this, except we didn't use any dyes so it wasn't colored...

http://www.uccs.edu/~rmelamed/MicroFall2002/Chapter%2011/Trichonympha.jpg

This isn't the one I used, but it's close to what it looked like.

http://www.securitypest.com/images/TermiteAcrop.jpg
That's actually a thing of beauty. Looks almost like pearls on the antenae, and the body reminds me of mother of pearl or alabaster. Wow! But I sure don't want that in my house. :eek:

Trichonympha, which is what digests the wood in the termite's intestines. Which looked something like this, except we didn't use any dyes so it wasn't colored...

http://www.uccs.edu/~rmelamed/MicroFall2002/Chapter%2011/Trichonympha.jpg


Fascinating. Its kind of cute...like a transparent rat. Do you know what the bacteria in cow's stomach in called as well?

Fascinating. Its kind of cute...like a transparent rat.

Yeah, maybe Stacey would like a few as pets?


Do you know what the bacteria in cow's stomach in called as well?

No, sorry :(

Yeah, maybe Stacey would like a few as pets?(

No, thank you.

No, thank you.

But they're easy to take care of! Just swallow them and then eat some wood (hehe, *snicker*) for them to digest.

I'm sure you have just the timber too. ;)

You know it!

http://www.gweep.net/~saki/albums/July-2003/stump_is_smooth.sized.jpg

ah crap...:(

Update: So in Zoology lab today, we were looking at protozoans, including Trichonympha which lives in the digestive tract of termites. I was going to disect one of them, but I decided to take pity on you and your family, and let them live. :rolleyes:

edit: why did I think Trichonympha was a bacteria in my previous posts? :o I obviously wasn't paying attention in class at the time.

I once knew a man with a wooden leg named Taerom...

I once knew a man with a wooden leg named Taerom...

:roflmao: