Fungal spores from air sample, May 2017

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Fungal spores from air sample, May 2017

#1 Post by kit1980 » Mon Jul 10, 2017 1:43 am

Fungal spores from an air sample (May 2017, downtown Bellevue, WA, USA), mounted in lactophenol cotton blue, 100x objective, bright field/oblique illumination, collage from several photos:

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Inverted version:

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Re: Fungal spores from air sample, May 2017

#2 Post by zzffnn » Mon Jul 10, 2017 3:09 am

Very interesting, thank you for sharing!
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Re: Fungal spores from air sample, May 2017

#3 Post by billbillt » Mon Jul 10, 2017 6:06 am

Hi Kit,

Very good images.. Thanks for posting.. May I ask how you went about collecting your sample?..

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Re: Fungal spores from air sample, May 2017

#4 Post by kit1980 » Mon Jul 10, 2017 6:12 am

billbillt wrote:Very good images.. Thanks for posting.. May I ask how you went about collecting your sample?
Thanks!
I just left several cover slips outside for a week.
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Re: Fungal spores from air sample, May 2017

#5 Post by billbillt » Mon Jul 10, 2017 4:43 pm

Good Idea.... I thought about hooking up a small muffin fan with a filter on the intake side and run that for a while to see what could be collected...

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Re: Fungal spores from air sample, May 2017

#6 Post by vasselle » Tue Jul 11, 2017 12:38 am

Bonjour
De belles images de spores.
Merci pour le partage.
Cordialement seb
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Re: Fungal spores from air sample, May 2017

#7 Post by hkv » Wed Jul 12, 2017 7:18 pm

Great find! I like the inverted one best
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