Aditi Iyer

Today I saw an onion skin under the Foldscope and it looked like a wall of  bricks. See my picture below.


 Aditi, 1st Grade


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Onion skin

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 I  found a dead moth in a box. I saw its wings under a foldscope and saw that there were scales on the wings. I noticed that some scales had come off the wing. The color of the scales are light brown and different from the moth’s wings? Why is that?


 I learnt that moths and butterflies have scales to get off spider’s webs. Also I noticed that they are not like turtle scales. If a moth enters a spider’s web it can easily get off because the scales come off. But what if it goes through many spider webs?


 –Aditi, 1st grade.

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Scales on a moth wing

On December the 6th I got lice on my head. I was curious to see what it was. So me and my Dad took two lice that I had on my head and put it under the Foldscope. I learned lots of new things about lice. I learned that lice are insects because they have six legs. I saw that the antenna had five brick-like things in the adult louse and four brick like things in the young-ling. I read they are called flagellomeres. I saw that the lice digested my blood in its gut. In the microscope I saw that there are two claws on the legs. One was big and shaped like a hook and the other one was small and shaped like a baby hook.  It looked like a thumb and the index finger.  I learned that when the louse is dead the blood becomes dark red. From the two lice, I saw that the big one and the small one looked a bit different from each other.


 I decided to draw all the parts of the big and small louse using a projection. If you look below my pictures are there.


 Happy New Year.


 Aditi Iyer

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 2.  Big Louse  Head


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 Big Louse right side


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 Big Louse-Left side


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 Big Louse rear-side


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 All put together.


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