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4 photos were used in inkscape
The 3 photos taken were of shrt weed 1ft tall. Located at tree lab, go to left hand fence and walk 5 feet to the right. Weed is by garden hose.

All images came sized in squares of 1688.00, this size was kept

Three arrows were made and kept horizontally, they are 150 pixels long (top slider), using the third arrowhead listed and 3mm wide

All images are labeled by 100x100 black boxes with white sans serif letters at 80 size font

All boxes are in inner corners

All images are 15 pixels away from each other.

The map snapshot covers the shade tree lab in the middle left , clark and wilder hall fills the top left and bottom left completely, then stockbrige road is showcased along with the french hall on the right and the franklin garden.

Picture 1 - Top Left Corner - Picture showcasing largest gallery from miner. The hand holding the leaf is visible on the left side of the photo as the plant had to be slightly rotated to showcase the leaf from the same angle as the rest of the pictures. The thumb brushes away the top leaves while the base of the stem is held by the tip of the middle and index fingers and the rest of the fingers are curled back. The garden hose is coiled around the base of the plant and the leaf is showcased in the center of the photo. The base of the stem and the tip of the leaf take approximately 70% of the photo heightwise while being fairly centered left and right

Picture 2 - Top Right Corner - This photo is taken a few feet from the plant and was rotated to make the brick of the building visible along the top edge. Another smaller weed can be seen in the right hand side of the photo. 2 arrows are used to showcase the infected leaves and the tips were placed on the edges of the center of the leaves

Picture 3 - Bottom Left Corner - The photo was taken very close to the less infected leaf with the back of a business card used for scale. There is no writing the card is completely blank. And takes up roughly the center 3/5ths of the left hand edge. The plant wasnt manipulated and as such the two top leaves are in the photo as well. Theres a very small weed (approx 6 inches tall or so) that can be seen in the bottom right of the photo to help judge distance

Picture 4 - is of the map

Woke up

Checked media

Played games

Showered, brushed teeth

Got dressed

Drove to work

Worked

Got lunch

Went to umass

Found where to park

Looked up Morril

Got lost

Found Morril 4

Found Morril 2

Walked around aimlessly confused as to where Morril 3 could of been

Attended class

Left class

Drove to a different parking lot

Got my Umass Id made

Drove to west springfield

Obtained necessary supplies

Attended group meeting

Fixed necessary equipment

Drove home

Travel: Drove to Hadley

    Drove to Umass

    Parked

    Located Morril 4,2,3

    Drove to otherside of campus

    Drove to West Springfield

    Drove to Belchertown

Method Paragraph Practice

    There are a lot of locations that had to be visited in order to successfully complete a day. The locations vary in distance, but most of them can be reached by driving. I drove to these locations with my windows down, and music playing loudly enough to cause hearing impairment if subjected to its presence over a relatively large period of time. I planned all driving routes as the fastest paths towards my destinations. The drives were planned so that arrival would be 15 minutes earlier than any scheduled appointment. All appointments were reached early except for one appointment that was reached exactly on time.

I had come up with a few general hypotheses about leaf miners before seeking them out. The first was that leaf miners would target plants with larger leaves to ensure an ample food supply, and the second was that they would avoid any plant that produces oils such as Poison Ivy and Mint plants. By extension, I would of thought that if leaf miners did inhabit smaller leaves, that the leaf miners would then be smaller insects, and would leave smaller galleries.

Excursion 1: Umass Campus

While exploring the campus, I had examined many of the local plants for leaf miner activies. The only leaf showing any presence of leaf miners, was narrow, approximately 1" wide, but very long, approximately 1' - 2', and had long straight galleries present. No other plants seemed to be infected with leaf miners.

Excursion 2: My Backyard

My hypothesis has been disproven by evidence of leaf miners in one of my weeds. The leaves measure 3" in length, and 3/4" at their widest sections. The galleries appear primarily around the edges of the leaf. The longest galleries appear to be about 4" long, and nearly all of the space is a black or dark brown color. On the underside of a leaf is a very small white husk of insect, which is attached to the gallery

Figure 1. Unnecessary Expenses. Rising costs of child birth can be explained by the lavish dining experiences of newborns. "Microbiome Rebirth Incubator / François-Joseph Lapointe (CA), Marianne Cloutier (CA)" flickr photo by Ars Electronica https://flickr.com/photos/arselectronica/43598742915 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license

This one is about Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria aquisition in hospital and community settings

http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=17&sid=50a060cf-f4f0-...

Didnt read this has phylogenic trees and gene information in a multi-panel
http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=18&sid=50a060cf-f4f0-...

Observation of Leaf Infected with Leaf Miner

The leaf of a local weed was collected for study due to the irregualar presence of an unknown white streak throughout the leaf. The streak appears on the sun facing side of the leaf. The streak has no particular pattern, following the veins of the leaf in some areas, and crossing a series of veins in others. The streak has two obseravable ends where it may have began and ended. One end of the streak measures about 1mm and gradually narrows to approximately 0.2mm. The thicker end has higher concentration of blackened areas within the streak, and within the thickest point of the streak there appears to be withered and dead patch measuring 5mm. The streak is faintly visable on the underside of the leaf, and cannot be easily removed from the top of the leaf. This suggests that the streak lies just underneath the surface of the leaf.

Description of leaf:
the leaf is an ellipse with serrated edges, measuring 126 mm from the tip of the leaf to the base of the unstraightened stem. The widest point, measured slightly diagonally across the center was 37mm.

Observation 1:
observed milky white colored streak on the sun facing side of the leaf of a local weed. The streak appears removable by aggressive rubbing with water. Black streaks are present in some of the infected areas. The streak appears erratic, and while most of the streak appears to follow along the veins of the leaf, some parts of the streak do cross over the veins while travelling up the leaf. The white streaks can be faintly seen through the underside of the leaf. The blackened areas are not visable through the leaf.

Observation 2:
Upon closer inspection, white streak was still present in scrubbed areas except where the leaf was heavily damaged by washing. This would suggest it is not a growth or residue leaft on the leaf, but is something underneath the surface. The track is nearly circular, however, has branches that indicate ends. Some sections are thicker,~1mm, and gradually slim down ~.2mm. The thicker areas are where the black streaks are more concentrated, and the thickest area has a small tan sliver similar in appearence to that of a dying leaf in the fall.