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| Attach aspirator to vacuum line and turn
on. Unclip cage clothespins and pinch leaf off at the petiole. |
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In the hood, carefully remove the rubber
bands. Lift the top piece off and count the number of thrips inside
the cage and on the leaf. Collect thrips with the aspirator being
careful not to scratch leaf tissue with aspirator tip. |
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| Remove number tag from tip of leaf. Place
leaf and tag on the scanning template. |
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| Center the template top over the damaged leaf
area. Make sure there is no vermiculite or other debris on the
leaf. |
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| Carefully turn template over and place on scanner
bed. The template needs to be on the side of the color card that is
nearest the lid hinge. The template sometimes sticks to the
lid. If it does, it best that it does not move the color card in the
process. Close scanner lid. |
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Open Corel PhotoPaint and use Control-Q to bring up scanner
software. On the first leaf do an overview scan and adjust the
selected area to slightly larger than the template and the color
card. Software settings should be left on the default and the
resolution set to 600 ppi.
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| Scan the leaf. The scanned image will be
opened in Corel PhotoPaint. Save the file as a TIF image with the
leaf number as the file name (001,002,003....). |
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