Hi Bryan,
It is some type of wasp.
Peter.
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- Fri Feb 16, 2024 7:49 am
- Forum: Specimens, samples and slides
- Topic: Dry Mounted Insect
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3040
- Thu Oct 12, 2023 3:17 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Unidentified object from the microcosm.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 550
Re: Unidentified object from the microcosm.
Hi Marcie,
I would say what you have there is a microscopic bristle worm.
Hope this helps. Peter.
I would say what you have there is a microscopic bristle worm.
Hope this helps. Peter.
- Fri Sep 01, 2023 6:55 pm
- Forum: Specimens, samples and slides
- Topic: How best to clean slides for thin blood smears ??
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17634
Re: How best to clean slides for thin blood smears ??
Hi Garz,
Use a cream cleaner; put a drop on each side of the slide, rub up and down between finger and thumb then leave to dry. When you want to use them wipe the powder off with your lint free cloth.
Hope this helps.
Peter.
Use a cream cleaner; put a drop on each side of the slide, rub up and down between finger and thumb then leave to dry. When you want to use them wipe the powder off with your lint free cloth.
Hope this helps.
Peter.
- Fri Apr 07, 2023 6:09 pm
- Forum: Microscopy accessories
- Topic: Microtome object holder (Leitz 1212)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4087
Re: Microtome object holder (Leitz 1212)
Hi iconoclastica,
I would recommend you use a small square block of wood to fit between the clamp jaws. The wax will stick to wood better than metal.
Hope this helps.
Peter.
I would recommend you use a small square block of wood to fit between the clamp jaws. The wax will stick to wood better than metal.
Hope this helps.
Peter.
- Sat Jul 16, 2022 7:08 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Space fly
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1745
Re: Space fly
You must be joking!
- Fri Oct 15, 2021 6:15 pm
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: Swift 380T - can't focus the whole field of view
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2392
Re: Swift 380T - can't focus the whole field of view
Hi Sandra,
It sounds like your objectives are cheep achromats, what you need to have the whole field in focus are "plan" objectives; somewhat more expensive I am afraid.
Peter.
It sounds like your objectives are cheep achromats, what you need to have the whole field in focus are "plan" objectives; somewhat more expensive I am afraid.
Peter.
- Sun Sep 19, 2021 5:57 pm
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: Anyone else is sick of closing and straining their other eye while looking into the microscope?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3711
Re: Anyone else is sick of closing and straining their other eye while looking into the microscope?
Hi smollerthings,
The correct method of viewing with a monocular microscope is to keep both eyes open. Some people draw what they see through the microscope with one eye while viewing their drawing with the other.
Peter.
The correct method of viewing with a monocular microscope is to keep both eyes open. Some people draw what they see through the microscope with one eye while viewing their drawing with the other.
Peter.
- Mon Aug 23, 2021 5:19 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Please identify
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1718
Re: Please identify
Hi ms122,
They look something like Spirotrich however they appear too small and too transiently for any one but a true expert to identify.
Peter.
They look something like Spirotrich however they appear too small and too transiently for any one but a true expert to identify.
Peter.
- Sat Aug 21, 2021 7:09 pm
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: I'm very confused about magnification
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8398
Re: I'm very confused about magnification
Hi HiddenWorlds, You are allowing the camera to confuse the issue. When microscopes were first marked with magnification numbers rather than focal length in fractions of an inch it was decided that the magnification would be the number of times bigger the object appeared when viewed at 10 inches. So...
- Wed Aug 11, 2021 6:37 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Unusual Vorticella?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3630
Re: Unusual Vorticella?
Hi Kwesi,
I once placed a duck weed on a slide, the stem of the weed was covered with vorticella, within minuets of my observing the vorticella had sensed the change in their conditions and abandoned their "stalks" and where "buzzing" around the slide.
Peter.
I once placed a duck weed on a slide, the stem of the weed was covered with vorticella, within minuets of my observing the vorticella had sensed the change in their conditions and abandoned their "stalks" and where "buzzing" around the slide.
Peter.
- Thu Jun 24, 2021 7:30 pm
- Forum: Specimens, samples and slides
- Topic: Huge list of stains available to me, any suggestions?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4964
Re: Huge list of stains available to me, any suggestions?
Hi notthatkindofDr,
I would take samples of them all. You will almost certainly not regret any that you take however you may well regret some you miss.
Peter.
I would take samples of them all. You will almost certainly not regret any that you take however you may well regret some you miss.
Peter.
- Thu Jun 24, 2021 7:25 pm
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: Identification of Water Sediment
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1701
Re: Identification of Water Sediment
Hi MicroscopyLearning,
I think you are right they are some sort of mineral or maybe organic material.
Peter.
I think you are right they are some sort of mineral or maybe organic material.
Peter.
- Tue Jun 01, 2021 5:48 pm
- Forum: Specimens, samples and slides
- Topic: Hay (Con)fusion
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5206
Re: Hay (Con)fusion
What they are intending for you to do is introduce a small sample from a local: pond, stream, swamp, river, lake, pudle, or whatever "natural" water source you wish to experiment with.
Peter.
Peter.
- Sat May 29, 2021 4:23 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Some sort of larvae arranged in a tubular shape?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2781
Re: Some sort of larvae arranged in a tubular shape?
Hi Albert,
I think what you have there may well be a clutch of midge eggs.
Peter.
I think what you have there may well be a clutch of midge eggs.
Peter.
- Mon Mar 08, 2021 5:53 pm
- Forum: Specimens, samples and slides
- Topic: Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1992
Re: Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles...
Hi Giulio,
I just hold the coverslip over the specimen and drop it, never seen this method recommended but it works for me with few bubbles.
Peter.
I just hold the coverslip over the specimen and drop it, never seen this method recommended but it works for me with few bubbles.
Peter.
- Tue Feb 23, 2021 6:28 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Identification help - Sample Barn Owl Faecal dropping
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3231
Re: Identification help - Sample Barn Owl Faecal dropping
Hi Placozoa,
It does not look like cotton to me, cotton tends to be a flattened twisted fiber.
Peter.
It does not look like cotton to me, cotton tends to be a flattened twisted fiber.
Peter.
- Mon Jan 25, 2021 3:46 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Identification help - Sample Barn Owl Faecal dropping
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3231
Re: Identification help - Sample Barn Owl Faecal dropping
Hi Linlivsey,
It is probably from the digestive system of a mouse which has been chewing a synthetic garment for nesting material.
Peter.
It is probably from the digestive system of a mouse which has been chewing a synthetic garment for nesting material.
Peter.
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 6:36 pm
- Forum: My microscope
- Topic: Converting a Nice BH-2 into a Nasty Frankenscope??
- Replies: 37
- Views: 15321
Re: Converting a Nice BH-2 into a Nasty Frankenscope??
Hi Kurt,
What have you done with the rest of the poor old Zeiss WL?
Peter.
What have you done with the rest of the poor old Zeiss WL?
Peter.
- Thu May 28, 2020 4:50 pm
- Forum: About the website, the magazine and this forum
- Topic: Welcome to the new forum!
- Replies: 34
- Views: 227048
Re: Welcome to the new forum!
Hi Girlfromearth,
Welcome to the forum.
Do you have a name?
Peter.
Welcome to the forum.
Do you have a name?
Peter.
- Sat Apr 25, 2020 7:02 pm
- Forum: Beginner's corner
- Topic: Specimen ethics
- Replies: 42
- Views: 18050
Re: Specimen ethics
Total beginner question (I don’t even own a microscope...yet). When you prepare a slide with microbes, what do you do with them after you are done? I would feel bad after observing and enjoying them not to be able to place them back into the jar/pond/wherever I got them! Hi Glenn, To answer your qu...
- Mon Dec 30, 2019 5:05 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Copepod (harpacticoida?) dying
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2703
Re: Copepod (harpacticoida?) dying
Hi Jan,
The orange spheres look like oil droplets to me.
Peter.
The orange spheres look like oil droplets to me.
Peter.
- Mon Nov 25, 2019 6:57 pm
- Forum: Introduce yourself
- Topic: New to the community
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6473
Re: New to the community
Hi Sara, welcome to the forum.
Peter.
Peter.
- Thu Nov 07, 2019 4:54 pm
- Forum: Specimens, samples and slides
- Topic: can i wash and reuse bacterial heat set slides?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6426
Re: can i wash and reuse bacterial heat set slides?
I would clean and reuse them. Why would you autoclave them?
Peter.
Peter.
- Fri Jun 14, 2019 6:50 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: Man made?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5557
Re: Man made?
Hi 75RR,
It could be the remains of an insect's compound eye. On the lower right corner of the object I imagine I can see lenses bulging from the holes.
Peter.
It could be the remains of an insect's compound eye. On the lower right corner of the object I imagine I can see lenses bulging from the holes.
Peter.
- Tue May 28, 2019 4:54 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: A swarm of tiny brown creatures
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3525
Re: A swarm of tiny brown creatures
Hi Hermitdog,
They look like thrips to me.
Hope this helps.
Peter.
They look like thrips to me.
Hope this helps.
Peter.
- Sat May 18, 2019 6:40 pm
- Forum: Microscopy accessories
- Topic: How to remove Reichert microtome chuck?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 20585
Re: How to remove Reichert microtome chuck?
Hi Tom, I would remove the screw near the end of the ram, there may be another screw under the one you can see. Also I would completely loosen all the screws on the collar to see if that makes a difference. Needless to say I have no experience with this breed of microtome so I am only guessing. Peter.
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 7:46 pm
- Forum: Microscopes and optics
- Topic: Double images
- Replies: 23
- Views: 21419
Re: Double images
Hi Chris, The first time I looked through a binocular microscope I had that effect, the technician showing me the microscope told me to move my head well back and concentrate on the two small spots of image in the centre of the eyepieces, then while concentrating on those relax my eyes and let the t...
- Thu Mar 14, 2019 5:57 pm
- Forum: Identification help
- Topic: No idea what this is
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5551
Re: No idea what this is
Possibly the remains of the exoskeleton from a dead thrip.
Peter.
Peter.
- Wed Feb 13, 2019 5:47 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: What is this?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8493
Re: What is this?
Hi Tareq, Did you clean the slide and coverslip before using them? Either, or both look contaminated to me. Hope this helps. Peter. Hi Peter, to be honest, i only cleaned the slide, but i used new coverslip because i have so plenty of it, wasn't doing things serious so didn't want to through slides...
- Tue Feb 12, 2019 6:42 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: What is this?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8493
Re: What is this?
Hi Tareq,
Did you clean the slide and coverslip before using them? Either, or both look contaminated to me.
Hope this helps.
Peter.
Did you clean the slide and coverslip before using them? Either, or both look contaminated to me.
Hope this helps.
Peter.