iForNature-Nature Club Research Laboratory

OUR LAB

Our high magnification (180x) stereo zoom trinocular microscope (Radical RSM-9F) with gooseneck illuminator and camera attachments for DSLR camera and CCD camera.

Trinocular compound microscope fitted with a CCD that is connected to a laptop. The image on the laptop screen shows a permanently mounted slide of Riccia sporophyte being examined.

A very useful trinocular stereo zoom microscope (RE-50X) that we utilize as a field microscope. It diassembles easily and fits inside a camera bag (right image), and has a magnification of 50x which comes handy for field observations and collection.

Left image: An entomological storage cabinet where the dry mounted insect specimens are preserved. Right image: a mounted insect specimen along with the lables containing valuable collection data including locality, geological co-ordinates, collector's name, taxonomic details and other important data. Here the insect (a parasitoid wasp) has been mounted on a card point and underneath are the cocoon and host species pinned along with the specimen.

Analytical weighing balance used for sophisticated weight measurements at a scale of upto 1 mg.

Micropipettes used in the lab comprises two types of pipette, fixed volume single channel and variable volume single channel, left to right: Microlit SLP Single Channel Variable Volume Micropipette 2-20µl, Borosil 20-200µl C3 Single Channel Fully Autoclavable Variable Volume Pipette, Vertex Single Channel Variable Volume 10-100µl Micropipette, MICROLIT LILPET PRO Miniature Fixed Volume Micropipette 20μl, Borosil 100-1000µl C3 Single Channel Fully Autoclavable Variable Volume Pipette, MICROLIT LILPET 1000 μl micropipette (MM-1000).

Digital pH meter (Style: bench-top, Model: STI-431) SKY Technology India, Haryana, India, pH range 0 – 14.00, mV range 0 – 1999, Resolution pH ± 0.01, mV = ± 1.00, Accuracy pH ± 0.01, mV = ± 1.00.

BASIC ENTOMOLOGY DISSECTION KIT: (1) Graduated dropper, (2) Vertex 10-100 µl variable volume pipette, (3) Borosil 100-1000 µl variable volume pipette, (4) Microlit Lilpet 1000 µl fixed volume pipette, (5) Paint brush, (6) Permanent marker, (7) Rotring isograph 0.1 mm technical pen, (8) Rubber stub for holding pins, (9) Spatula, (10) Blunt flat-tipped forceps, (11) Fine-tipped forceps, (12) Ultra fine-tipped anti-static forceps, (13) Bent-tipped forceps, (14) Insect pinning forceps, (15) Ultraprecise bent-tipped tweezers, (16) Pin vice for holding stainless steel insect pins, (17) Scalpel, (18) Dissection needle, (19) Bent-tipped anti-static ceramic-tipped tweezers, (20) Stage micrometer (1 mm -100 divisions), (21) Cavity glass slide, (22) Clear nail paint, (23) Potassium hydroxide pellets, (24-25) Glass cavity block and glass cover, (26) Ethanol, (27) Nail paint remover or Acetone, (28) Plastic vials and microcentrifuge tubes, (29) Parafilm, (30-32) Stainless steel entomological pins, sizes 0, 2 and 4, (33) Ball-headed pins, (34) Scissors, (35) Dissection scissors, (36) Flat surface tweezers for holding coverslips, (37) Watch glass, (38) Reagent dropping bottle, (39) Flat bottom glass test tube, (40) Round cover slips (18 mm), (41) Round cover slips (12 mm), (42) Square cover slips (22 mm), (43) Jwewlers loups (40x magnification), (44) Glass slide, (45) Glass test tube, (46) Knife, (47) Weighing balance, (48) Ceramic cavity tile, (49) Paper clips, (50) Nitrile gloves, (51) Centrifuge tube rack. Other important things: Spirit lamp, Hot water bath, Distilled water, Xylene, DPX mounting media, Micropipette tips, Dissection stereo microscope, Compound microscope.