Is it possible to see through ants? (BioE 80 Spr 15)
May 26, 2015 • 2:41 AM UTC
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Ant bites can really hurt! Growing up in the Arizona desert it’s common for kids to get ant bites because many of us play outside and some ant colonies are huge. In my culture it is customary to take the ant and rub it into the spot that is in pain. I was told that ants have some kind of antivenom that cures the pain. I did this many times and it worked. Also as a kid I liked to play with flashlights by covering the light with my hands making them glow and I could almost see through them. What can I see when looking at an ant through a microscope with a light behind it? Do they have organs? Can I see where the antivenom might come from?
I found an ant and put it in a slide. I was able to see the light shine through it. There were darker parts within it. I saw what looked like a vein of some sort in the head. It looked like a black ant before I saw it through the foldscope but in the foldscope it was a reddish color.
The ant glows a reddish color so that could be the color of its blood. I used white light but maybe different colors of light will show different things in the ant’s body. What is the dark line I saw in the head? A vein? An organ? Do other ants have the same thing?
Contributors: Benjamin Wheeler, Quint Underwood, Shankara Krishna Anand
I found an ant and put it in a slide. I was able to see the light shine through it. There were darker parts within it. I saw what looked like a vein of some sort in the head. It looked like a black ant before I saw it through the foldscope but in the foldscope it was a reddish color.
The ant glows a reddish color so that could be the color of its blood. I used white light but maybe different colors of light will show different things in the ant’s body. What is the dark line I saw in the head? A vein? An organ? Do other ants have the same thing?
Contributors: Benjamin Wheeler, Quint Underwood, Shankara Krishna Anand
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