Cheater!!I am an expert in fruit fly eggs!!
I hatched some once in Biology 121, I think it was.. I could not really figure out what color their eyes were..
So I might have used data that was in line with what I was suppose to find,,,and written my paper and conclusions off that...
I have felt guilty over this for 40 years..Thanks for allowing me to confess my sin so I can sleep well tonight...
Now what about this post:
Personally I have to wonder why you candle so much...BUT then I wonder why all these people candle so much weigh eggs and all the OCD stuff they do... I chicken never candles her eggs, never weighs them and they hatch...I try to be just like a chicken when I incubate....
X-rays would not remove anything you could see with your naked eye from an egg, I don't think....
Is it possible someone sold you bad eggs,,,or did the boys at the post Office have a rousing game of volleyball with your eggs? Both are possible..
How much is a lot of money spent for eggs to be mailed to you? I have some eggs I could send you.....
I really think you are searching too deeply for an easy answer....... The eggs did not hatch, they were shipped, so that takes from the chance of a hatch....Where they disinfected? Infection and dirty eggs take from the chances of a good hatch...
Heat and cold take from the chances of a good hatch...... So many variables, blaming the Xray machine seems a little far fetched... Even though I mark all eggs I shp with a "do not xray" label, I doubt very much the postal employees pay much attention to the label..Other than to know it is a good box to play ball with....
We candle because it is fun. Because the way an egg turns into a peeping fuzzy is amazing, and we want to watch it happen. Because it seems magical to watch that little swimming eyeball in there just sorta bounce back and forth, swimming in its ting little world. Because---I dunno, we just like to.
That has nothing to do with the topic of the thread."SUMMARY
1. The eggs of the fruit fly, Drosophila, can be used as a dosimeter for estimating X-ray dosage. Within limits which are discussed, there is a correlation between dosage and effect.
2. Because a large proportion of the eggs is normally resistant to X-rays, the lethal dose must have a sufficient intensity to kill every individual in a short time. This is probably true also for those tumor cells which show the same type of variation in sensitiveness to radiations. "
Quite odd.