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Beautiful image!

Beautiful 3d-like pic.

Very nice image! What is the technique - are we looking at an impression left in nail varnish?

Amazingly, the shape of tests of these little guys remind strongly of that of normal sized sea shells as made by molluscs, a wholly unrelated phylum of animals! Nature seems to rediscover the same patterns repeatedly.

rnabholz wrote:Just got the ballistics report back.

Looks like it was a .009mm....

Wow, those are very beautiful!

If that's the silhouette of a standard sized needle in the picture, the critter is quite large, and I'd venture that the magnification is closer to 10x.

Thanks .... these guys are still eluding me ... will continue with the moss inspections.

I think they may have had an argument of some kind because they are all facing away from each other.

Unlikely: Rotifers don't speak nematode.

Nice composition !

This is my evil laboratory of doom hidden within the bowels of an undisclosed location.

I've been admiring that Motic for a few years now. A sleek instrument for sure.

Very nice! How/ where did you find it?

It almost looks as if he is presenting his tummy for a tickle, as would a small dog ..... a nice find!

Very nice record of an unusual and interesting event. Enjoyable narrative too!

Thank you all! :) Re my assertion thet the bacteria in the second pic were Gram +; I think I jumped to conclusions too soon. After some more reading, it looks like I missed out on an all important rinsing step with acetone. Only if, after the rinse, the bacteria still retain their purple colour, are...

I casted a few agar plates (2% agar, 1% glucose, 5% beef extract) to investigate the microflora found on my skin. I inoculated the petri dishes by simply touching it with my fingers. Dishes were incubated in a dark drawer at room temperature. Growth was rapid and just a little bit horrifying. Below ...

I'll bet it's an Echinoderm ... possibly a baby brittlestar. It looks a bit damaged, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brittle_star From the Wikipedia article: They can easily thrive in marine tanks; in fact, the micro brittle star is a common "hitchhiker" that will propagate and become common i...

Wow, very nice! And I like the little hydrlet budding off.

What a beaut! Well done!

That's quite beautiful, Gekko. I always enjoy admiring the symmetry in these diatoms. A bit like getting two for the price of one.

Jim I'm sure any type would yield comparative results that are like chalk and cheese.

Cool. You should perhaps also do one with cheese to compare it against ....

Very nice ... especially the first one.

Greetings Luis, and welcome here. In short, I seriously doubt that the microscope that you linked to will be able to resolve bacteria. Firstly, I am sceptical about a 1000x magnification claim in this type of microscope. In my experience these handheld USB types give good workable results up to mayb...

What the ... ??! It looks like something out of the movie Evolution

Very nice bird bath - especially the finial. So who's the most accomplished hunter around that fountain - cat or master?

What a great assortment. Thanks for treating us to these.

That's awesome! Yours is far less weatherbeaten than mine; did you purchase new, and if so, I'm curious in which decade?

That's a clever solution. Nicely done!

Thanks!

I found this stereo microscope at a flea market yesterday, and at ZAR225 (about US$18) I couldn't resist. It's really quite a small thing, and it came with 15x and 50x oculars. I expect the latter will be quite useless, but will test them out properly later. Its four prisms (if that's indeed what th...