Woodlice

I know it sounds like a bit of an odd topic for a blog but I just thought I would write one in memory of the woodlouse I accidentally killed in my biology experiment yesterday... I know - evil!

We were doing an experiment which involved putting some woodlice in a choice tube (a hollow T-shaped tube) and letting it crawl the section where it then decides whether to go into the dark section or the light section. We started off with 4 woodlice but one was too fat for the tube so we disregarded it and gave it to someone else.

I appologise to all the woodlice lovers but they arn't exactly the most intelligent of all insects. One of them decided it would be a smart idea to go into the light section (lit by a lamp). Now this section was not exactly the coolest of sections and it seemed that it was probably frying in there as it promptly decided to try and reverse... and failed.Don't worry, I did save it by tipping the tube - I'm nice really!

But in another incident I was tipping the 3 woodlice out of the tube but none of them seemed to be falling out so I decided to tap it against the table but unfortunately just as I was hitting the tube on the table, one feel out and I ended up stabbing it :S I'm sorry!!

R.I.P woodlouse!