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During September of 1998, we collected air-borne fungi at 17 sites by vertically swiping three agar plates (one each of potato sucrose agar, casein agar, and sagebrush-leaf agar) ten times in the air.
Consider Gira Fornaciari, who unearthed 49 members of the Medici family to confirm various causes of death, or the committee that had Beethoven and Schubert dug up to transfer them to more secure zinc coffins (borrowing both heads for a bit more measuring, and swiping Schubert's luxuriant, larvae-laden hair while they were at it).
During October of 1999, we collected air-borne fungi at 22 sites by swiping 10 potato dextrose agar plates vertically 10 times in the air.
It ends on a note of blithe miscegenation--just the sort of punch line to send the Camilles of the world screaming from the theater swiping at invisible bugs.