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&spiny) parts of leg.
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