My job is kind of like a scavenger hunt
That’s what makes my job fun. I don’t know if I’m going to find a bug or if the state is going to plant a bug so every day I go to work looking desparately into a pan of flies making sure that no bug escapes.
Today I was driving a borrowed truck. I’ve had a little bit of a truck issue since I started. The first truck was in the shop about 3 times. Then my second truck which I really like had a week of weird things happen. I had the mirror in the 118 degree heat fall off in my lap, and the emergency brake handle come off in my hand and my water tank sprung leaks from all the seams. I got a 2001 truck and was so grateful but then the battery went dead in it. I got it jump started from one of the biologist in the office and was driving it down to where they work on our trucks in Martinez when it stalled in the intersection.
Well with Matt on redial (see picture above) and me scared to death I jumped out of the truck and pushed it across Hwy 4 onto laurel; some men came running but I was so scared that I must have been running cause I was able to get it to the curb before they even got to me.
So with all the truck issues I’ve been having, I have felt pretty distracted. Today, I was trying to work with confidence and I was doing okay but still you want to work as efficently as possible and as fast as you can and not make paper mistakes or miss a bug. I was using a siph to sort the bugs from the yeast water, when I spotted what looked like a Mexican fruitfly. You use a clean pan with water to float your bugs and sure enough it was one.
I called Roxanne at our main office and told her that I had found the plant. The plants have a section of wing snipped so you can tell it’s a plant.