Student names: Shilpashree, Bharathi, Lekhana, Leelavathi, Sangetha, Bindu


 College: CMR National PUC, ITPL, Bengaluru


 Specimen Name: Cockroach’s leg [
 
 Periplaneta americana ]
 


 Class: Insects


 Phylum: Arthropoda


 Specimen collected from : our home


 Specimen observed at :CMR National PUC , ITPL, Bengaluru on 19th DEC 2018


 We all participated in a foldscope workshop conducted by our biology teacher. It is realy exciting to see organism under foldscope. Preparing the slide was interesting . We took out metathorarcic leg of an adult cockroach .  The picture shows the trochanter (a triangular short rod-like) and the femur (long&amp;spiny) parts of leg.

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Legs of Cockroach

shilpashrees | Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 9:29 AM

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Foldscope Lens Magnification

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