Heliothis eggs and static electricity???

[Bill Cornelius]

Dick:
I think spraying the outside of the plastic petri will ground the static, (works on
balloons).
Bill

"O.G. Marti, Jr." wrote:

> Our rearing department produces many thousands of Heliothis zea eggs
> daily. I need to use mine as single eggs in the field, but often find that they
> are clumped into groups of 2 to 5 and are difficult to separate. We run
> them thru a strainer and discard the clumped eggs. However, now I find
> that the eggs cling to the top of the plastic petri dish that I use to take
> them to the field and generally jump around around a lot, depending on
> where my hand is placed on the dish, from static electricity. I lose a lot of
> eggs this way. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to prevent the eggs
> from clumping (which probably is not due to static electricity) and jumping
> (which probably is due to static electricity)?
>
> Cheers,
> Dick Marti
>
> Orville G. Marti, Jr., Microbiologist
> USDA, ARS, IBPMRL
> PO Box 748
> Tifton, GA. 31793
>
> omarti at tifton.cpes.peachnet.edu
> Phone: 912-387-2328 (office)
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