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Shawn...

No....I'm asking if the entire section(s) is/are neural tissue...?
Or....whether you are directing attention to some feature that is a subset of the entire image.

Judd

This algae post illustrates the HUGE benefit(S) of membership in this website. T h r o u g h this website I've viewed many algae images. They are different.....yet hold common unities...features.... Through multiple exposure I've come to recognize algae in its many forms.. So when I look down my mic...

The person who makes a section... The operson who publishes a photomicrograph... Is a l w a y s more informed than viewers... Therefore.....is/are these sections of an entire nerve....consisting only of nerve tissue... Or are they specimin sections containing nerve tissue..??.. In the first, top-lef...

Many of the insects I look at are covered with "hairs"......
However except for clearly-purposed sensory hairs at the mouth and foot-parts.....aren't those hairs (yes, even on the wings..!!..) a "flight impediment"..??..
Seems .... a curious design.
It clearly works.
But....

Judd

I see no microbial life........
In the one photo.....I see either a "channel" or a "sandwich"....
The "material(s)" are un-knowable
"Yesterday's dinner.."......???..........

jw

Photos without enlargement
West Coast of North American Continent at Latitude 45.102458
Approx 10 a.m.
Olympus TG-3 camera....degree of zoom not recorded...

Of HISTORIC NOTE: the photo demonstrating mutant capability

Little guy has "trailing hairs" that are smaller in diameter than his body-centered "lines"....so.....
I'm not thinking nerves. I'm thinking carapace segments....or (?) body-hairs(?).
Very nice image..!!...

jw

Interesting.
Ability of blood cells to elongate to accomodate the ID of vessels.....I didn't know that.
One does not ever see that elongation on a "smeer" mount.

Judd

Ah ha....
Mudwasp, then.....

Judd

Whose House...???.....
Where did you find it...???....

Mayfly nymphs construct such "cemented-together tiny-gravel homes"........live (like hermit crabs) during the nymph phase entirely underwater.
Photo is NOT of a mayfly "home"......the aperature of the "home" you show is too small.

Judd

apo...........the t o o t h f a i r y will/does/occasionally will/might.......crap in your eyesockets......!!!!!.......

Holy Toledo.......
Whutta thought.........

Was he bright red..??.. Night before last a tiny little bright red spider ran across a page of the book I was reading. He was a miracle-of-miniturization ...eyes...respiration...brain...eight fast-moving legs... I wondered what he was thinking at the time... Had he run across the plate of a Most Sen...

Odor-producing kitchen-rag. VERY stinky. Obtained fluid from. Introduced Methylene Blue...aqueous slide/coversliip/oil immersion 1000x The object has so little depth that "stacking" was not useful. Methylene Blue did nothing for spore definition but caused rod/bacteria to emerge. Two spores. Large/S...

NO BETTER EXAMPLE...!!!.... how digital video e n l a r g e s and c o m p l e t e s any view of "The Thing In It's Environment"...!!!.... No "still picture" would have conveyed an accurate picture.....how this guy lives and does business. He "mines" organic debris and deposits it upon himself as cam...

Casselle---your photos "state the case" for glycerine magnificently...
I will have to acquire some

Judd

Where did you find him?

Vasselle....are are those projections as "thorn-like" as they appear..
Would this water-weed be uncomfortable to bathers?

Judd

Common Name: Scotch Broom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytisus_scoparius
An absolute curse.....in Oregon/California
Propagates via seed and root-budding

Translation: Hello everyone. A small observation last night. This is duckweed , picking up on the river Thouet . Binocular Loupe Bresser Researcher ICD . Of duckweed are present in all continents. Present in large quantities , they can be a sign of eutrophication. Each duckweed produces a new leaf g...

The ENLARGED views are v e r y nice. I've never done a culture.....of.......a n y t h i n g. Interesting. I would imagine that "doing cultures" is extremely dangerous without Technique. That what one thinks one is culturing....might not be that. I would imagine that "doing cultures" m a n d a t e s ...

You have IDENTIFIED seeds I photographed in a raindrop filled spiderweb on the Oregon coast several years ago.
I printed the image and mounted it in my home.
Had no idea, however, the source of those seeds.
FIREWEED........well yes, Oregon has Fireweed...!!!....
Thank You
Judd

Best First Resort solution to dust......is...... Pressurized-air-in-a-can... CAVAET CAVAET Most such "air cans" are position sensitive and MUST be held upright. If they are held at an angle, they will emit their own propellant rather than air. That liquid propellant could be damaging to optical devi...

WELL...I have NEVER seen anything that big...
A bug that's too big to bait a hook.......????............a concept entirely beyond my ken........
GASP....!!!....

Interesting overview of eye-types......including the compound eye

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye

Judd

Vassele....Wo haben Sie ihm her..????.....

Der Judd

(I can "do" German, leider,aber, nicht der Franzoische)

SEVEN CENTIMETERS...!!!!....
Rodney.....One could catch a fish with that guy...

Judd

insect-larvae-as-microtome...
that's imaginative...!....

Judd

Vasselle...... Take photo #2.....into Adobe Photo Shop....(image)(adjust)(size) = 30-inches x 30-inches Set pixel density at 320 dpi Check: the box Bicubic Interpolation to "resample" your image. GoTo Adjust: brightness/contrast...darken 12%....increase contrast the same, or more BOTH.....more.....t...

I am very glad to have found www.microbehunter.com
You guys are interesting contributors...every one of you.

Judd

Emergents from an about 2-inch volume of deer feces (I have so many deer in my back yard, I cannot grow a n y t h i n g.....the deer eat "the tops" and then the gophers come along and eat everything belowground.) I placed the feces in a zip-lock bag with 2/3rds cup warm water and let it set Then kne...