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Well this is a new one for me.
I did what you should have done by yourself: I typed POOTER into Google, and came up with this from WIKIPEDIA: A pooter (sometimes, usually by Americans, referred to as an aspirator) is a device used in the collection of insects, crustaceans or other small, fragile organisms, usually for scientific purposes.
other common design (the more traditional "pooter") consists of a length of flexible tubing, of which one end is held in the mouth, and the other end which holds the tip.
tip is usually a glass or plastic pipette inserted into the plastic tubing, with a piece of gauze as a filter at the inner end to prevent accidental ingestion.
insects (e.g., Drosophila) may be gently collected and held against the filter by steady inhalation, and transferred into a container by then blowing the insect(s) out. A skilled lab worker, for instance, may be able to sequentially inhale and then transfer a pooter-full of Drosophila flies singly into vials, thus facilitating rapid setup of fly experiments with a minimum of pain caused to the researcher, or the researched. Larger, motor-powered variants of this design exist (typically, a leaf blower working in reverse), where the insects are sucked into a mesh collecting bag in a long plastic tube, and held there by the powerful suction. So I conclude that pootering in scientific terms refers to the collection of insects using a suction tube.
I did what you should have done by yourself: I typed POOTER into Google, and came up with this from WIKIPEDIA: A pooter (sometimes, usually by Americans, referred to as an aspirator) is a device used in the collection of insects, crustaceans or other small, fragile organisms, usually for scientific purposes.
other common design (the more traditional "pooter") consists of a length of flexible tubing, of which one end is held in the mouth, and the other end which holds the tip.
tip is usually a glass or plastic pipette inserted into the plastic tubing, with a piece of gauze as a filter at the inner end to prevent accidental ingestion.
insects (e.g., Drosophila) may be gently collected and held against the filter by steady inhalation, and transferred into a container by then blowing the insect(s) out. A skilled lab worker, for instance, may be able to sequentially inhale and then transfer a pooter-full of Drosophila flies singly into vials, thus facilitating rapid setup of fly experiments with a minimum of pain caused to the researcher, or the researched. Larger, motor-powered variants of this design exist (typically, a leaf blower working in reverse), where the insects are sucked into a mesh collecting bag in a long plastic tube, and held there by the powerful suction. So I conclude that pootering in scientific terms refers to the collection of insects using a suction tube.
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:41:55 GMT
This term is widely used and well known in the UK in school/ college science. Basically it is a device to sample and examine small insects by sucking them up into a container. Trevor's extract from Wikipaedia is spot on.
Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:31:23 GMT