Day Eleven

So The Doc wasn't in today, and neither X nor I knew that she wasn't.  I didn't have anything to do really, because I finished the bee flies from the USA yesterday, and was going to ask her what I should do next.  I decided to go through a vial of flies that The Doc told me not to worry about, because based on the size of the flies, would be two different flies.  I decided to do it, for practice.  Just by looking at the vial, I also thought the flies would be apolysis and mythicomyids based on size alone.  Imagine my surprise when there were no bee flies!  Even with my almost two weeks of experience, I knew none of the flies I was looking at were bee flies.  Since I didn't have anything to do, I tried to key out the flies.  Never again unless The Doc is there.  I only managed to identify one fly completely on accident.  I was skimming through the dichotomous key book, when I saw a picture of a fly that looked like one floating in my pteri dish.  Sure enough, it was.  As for the other ones...no amount of google searches yielded results.  On a more interesting note, this man who works for the museum came in to the lab.  He had a bug and didn't know what it was, and asked us to identify it.  I thought it was a leafhopper, but I could not find a picture of one that looked like it.  Then X found picture of nymph leafhoppers that looked just like the man's mystery bug!  We both agreed that it probably was a one, and X emailed him with our thoughts.  And that was my day.  Hopefully The Doc is back tomorrow so I can have something new to do.