No sense of humor. But no we don't call each other mates here, just dudes.Yeah.,..I might just want to point out that is it not mate..as in "mantis" mate..
I work in the insect museum at my university (UC Davis) and I have to agree with you about the cataloging aspects. It can be very boring. I'm lucky though - collection/lab work is only about 50% of my job. The rest is field workI'm taking bioinformatics as part of my biochem and genetics course and all I have to say is *respect* to anyone that takes that course! I take it you're using UNIX and the like? I have an essay on that due in soon - expect a few emails!I WOULD have taken entomology as a course but I went to the Natural History Museum in London (anyone that's been to London will know it) and worked behind the scenes - got so bored with the cataloguing side of it that it put me off doing it seriously
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i worked there too for a bit! i had to pretty much re-label a whole floors worth of cabinets cos the person before me messed it up. also had to re-organize alot of specimens into new cabinets and whatnot. but at lunch break i'd go down to the mantis cabinets and have a gander, it was brilliant, the diversity of all the specimens. but i wasnt working on the mantis floor, mainly with parasitic hymenoptera. actually looking back it was pretty interesting, i forgot.I'm taking bioinformatics as part of my biochem and genetics course and all I have to say is *respect* to anyone that takes that course! I take it you're using UNIX and the like? I have an essay on that due in soon - expect a few emails!I WOULD have taken entomology as a course but I went to the Natural History Museum in London (anyone that's been to London will know it) and worked behind the scenes - got so bored with the cataloguing side of it that it put me off doing it seriously
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