Knowledge graph centered on YM agar preparation (Nymphalidae) with 46 nodes and 166 connections. Top connected: Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Two-form Bumble Bee, Bumble Bees, Buff-tailed Bumble Bee.
Method to quantify microbial load on different butterfly body parts by direct plating on agar media. Samples tarsi/proboscis by dragging across plate and thorax by washing technique.
Synthesized from method descriptions across 2 papers using this protocol.
Steps below were extracted from the most recent peer-reviewed implementation of this protocol in the corpus — The dispersal of microbes among and within flowers by butterflies (2023), Ecological Entomology. The protocol was originally introduced by Butterfly foraging and the dispersal of microbes among & within flowers (2020). Implementations in other papers (listed below) may differ.