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Hi Peter,

Do you realize what you are implying?

Drone mates with drone never been heard of. The virgin queen will mate with up to 17 different drones on the wing.

Excellent my man. Good strong colours.

Hi RudiV, I have been keeping bees for 17 years and if I can be of any help please get in touch. I have obtained all the British Beekeeping written modules and the microscopy module so I have some idea of what is expected re; drones. I also have a big collection of pollen grains. Good luck to you fo...

OK guys now for my penny worth, the algae looks like Oedogonium and the diatoms I would suggest are Gomphonema note the bottle shape to them, or a wedge.

I have had a good look through my books and come up with your diatoms I think its Ellerbeckia.
You can see the golden colour in one of the photos.

Great images and thanks for naming the individual diatoms it makes learning simple. Thanks.

Many thanks for the information I stand by your I.D. as I now see the massive difference, Thanks.

Hi Guy's
My thoughts on this ciliate is it might be Dileptus which is a predatory ciliate.

Hi Rod
Great vid and good motion within the plant. There is so much that goes on that we do not fully understand but its fascinating watching what goes on. Good dedicated piece of work.

I have gone through the Diatom section and found this to be one of the best forms of information and naming of individual diatoms.
It's one I have down loaded for reference in the future, I consider this site an important site for diatomists.

Try moving the condenser up and down as this might help to focus items.

I think this could be Peridinium its a dinoflagellate with a substantial theca lying just inside the cell membrane. The most evident sculptings of this 'armoured' are two groves (the equatorial groove and the longtitudinal groove normally carries a flagellum (not seen in this photo).

Yes absolutely fantastic work, I hope you don't mind but I have downloaded some of your photos for my reference. Thank you they are great.

Its a German site or at least the address is. planktonnet.awi.de/# have a look its very interesting.

Hi Jim T
Yes that sure is Loxophyllum inits full glory. Good photographs and easy to study. I wonder if there is any way where the internal organs can be shown?

Somehow I don't think yours was a lucky guess, you knew what it was without reference.

OK 75,
I thought it might be along the lines of Navicula Jentzii and Amphora exigua but I must settle for a genus of Surirella sp.
Well that made me think for a while and it opened different doors for me thanks 75.

Hi 75,
My first thoughts is this diatom is not Surirella gemma because gemma has large spaces between each individual striae and yours are uniformly spaced along the valve. I'll try and find what I think it might be.

Hi Guys, Yes Kurt it is a rotary mechanical stage. The scope has been in continual for a few years although it did have a holiday for about 10 years where the person who owned it became ill with the big C. He pulled through and decided that he would carry on in the microscopy world but no more makin...

The very first photo shows a deformed diatom, the ones that are shaped like a lemon need careful studying as there are about 5/6 different species that they could be. But as normal a set of good photos for the diatomaniacs of us all.to study.

And to finish off with my polarized. This was made by CTS who were later taken over by Vickers.

Third is my Phase Contrast microscope.

And now my Stereo Watson microscope.

To have a change of microscopy for a while, during my time of learning and practicing methods in microscopy we have to use certain instruments and these are microscopes. How did I know that you already knew this? Well I thought I show my microscopes which are a few years old but give excellent image...

A really good vid. Although amoeba are apparently almost structureless bits of protoplasm. Amoeba is within the order of Rhizopods which are defined as having no shell or skeleton and usually with blunt pseudopodia. When this animal moves the inner endoplasm first flows out into the lobe - a pseudop...

Do you guys just cover the eye pieces only to keep the dust off? Do you not cover the whole microscope? I cover all my microscopes fully from head to toe, even if I am just popping out the room for a minute I always leave them covered. Sorry Rod and others I have just reread the thread and noticed y...

Wow!!! That's one of the best posts I have read, great work that must have taken a lot of thought transference. That must go down as POST of the Year. (only joking Crater).

Nice set of diatoms Rod but I think I would question the genus of 2. Delphineis as I think it should be Cymbella citrus. And 4. Rhapalodia I think it might be (possible) Stauroneis sp. On the whole a good set of photos with plenty to study and inwardly digest. Great to see you have not lost your tou...

I am sorry but for the life me I can not find the blessed format, but what I did find is a photo of a centric diatom. Sorry guys.

I understand the predicament were in concerning how to observe the girdle view of a broken diatom. How is the problem of turning the valve view on its side. I have seen a dissected diatom somewhere let me find it.