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Way to go gastrotrichman.
Here is a pretty good photo from a research paper.
The link for the paper is on the top of the pdf.
Thanks so much.
rooth

This gut was not moving at all. I am afraid I did not give him much chance. I was looking for certain spores and dissected a piece of flower bud from a fruit tree and made an infusion. I am sure he was dead as a door nail. I will do another dissection to see if I find another. You are on to somethin...

You may already know these but, I think this is a predatory nematode. That's a good guy. Your number 4 guy is a bacteria feeder - good guy - see that black valve - they tend to move really fast. Your number 5 looks like a root feeding nematode - not such a good guy. See the stylet used to puncture. ...

Could this be a tardigrade. I have three photos so you can see the whiskers, his body outline, and the legs. There were three of them in the one sample but this one was in the best shape. (He has clearly seen better days.) I got the sample from an apple tree flower bud that I sliced into last week (...

This is from an infusion of a scraping of a small stem of an apple tree. 200 total X. I have two photos. One shows the layer that looks like crystals - one indication that it's an amoeba. The other is a different layer. The colors are not great but it was bright light green. I have not seen photos o...