After more than a month, the work of the biofilm nears completion. The vegetation is being consumed by the protists and there is less vegetable matter to support the population. It looks like time is near to renew the vegetation in the biome.
https://youtu.be/nkWQg6H-GQk
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- Wed May 01, 2024 7:23 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: The Biofilm Starts to Thin
- Replies: 0
- Views: 19
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:00 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Some of the life found on just one slide
- Replies: 4
- Views: 89
Re: Some of the life found on just one slide
Just plain wow!
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:21 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Waxy Protective Threads in the Orange Peel
- Replies: 0
- Views: 35
Waxy Protective Threads in the Orange Peel
Inside the skin of the mandarin orange peel is a layer of fused waxy structure that looks like an insulation protecting the sensitive inner tissue of the orange. The cell structure is organized like knotted or tangled threads.
https://youtu.be/8KTz9gQl5j0
https://youtu.be/8KTz9gQl5j0
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 3:53 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Cells of the Mandarin Orange Fruit
- Replies: 0
- Views: 30
Cells of the Mandarin Orange Fruit
The sweet fruit of the mandarin orange is contained in flexibe bag-like cells. In spite of their flexibility and fragility, the long cells are quite distinct under the microscope. Skin structures are also visible distributed over the surface.
https://youtu.be/LWTtSx69DZM
https://youtu.be/LWTtSx69DZM
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:42 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Soy sauce in DIC
- Replies: 2
- Views: 99
Re: Soy sauce in DIC
Beautiful but abstract-looking photos.
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:08 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Above the Biofilm
- Replies: 0
- Views: 37
Above the Biofilm
I photographed the inhabitants of the water above surface of the biofilm.
https://youtu.be/z4Loz48rS_Q
https://youtu.be/z4Loz48rS_Q
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 3:41 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Neighborhood of The Green Pepper Seed
- Replies: 0
- Views: 35
Neighborhood of The Green Pepper Seed
The fruit of the green pepper contains a complex seed mount. The tissue is rigid like plastic with small bumps. The cell structures in the seed are irregular with a variety of layered structures. This is a quick survey of a sample.
https://youtu.be/kPR12p_iPtA
https://youtu.be/kPR12p_iPtA
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:01 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Pulling on My Pants
- Replies: 0
- Views: 55
Pulling on My Pants
Death is a worthy opponent.
I will not demean her.
Ooh devilish, a changer of memory,
a changer of signposts,
a quiet deceiver.
I surprise myself. And death
is not I. Death moved in
and sliced my mind.
I must call out
how I don't love her.
She can't have me.
I will not demean her.
Ooh devilish, a changer of memory,
a changer of signposts,
a quiet deceiver.
I surprise myself. And death
is not I. Death moved in
and sliced my mind.
I must call out
how I don't love her.
She can't have me.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:50 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Leaf Cells Under Attack from Protists
- Replies: 0
- Views: 44
Leaf Cells Under Attack from Protists
Originally I dropped some leaves into a pool of water. Within hours the pool was inhabited by microbes moving through the cells of the leaf. After a few weeks the structure of the leaf cells began to change. I continue taking pictures of the changes and the slow process of change in the cells. Here ...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 10:00 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: The Rotifer Movie
- Replies: 4
- Views: 206
Re: The Rotifer Movie
This is top notch.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 6:48 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: New Grass
- Replies: 0
- Views: 52
New Grass
Grasses are just starting to emerge in late April. Some pictures of our new crop.
https://youtu.be/erEH6QzX0OI
https://youtu.be/erEH6QzX0OI
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:23 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: My old buddy Rotifer.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 119
Re: My old buddy Rotifer.
Beautifully captured.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 5:21 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Cells of a Leaf from the Lawn
- Replies: 2
- Views: 86
Re: Cells of a Leaf from the Lawn
Yes that's an interesting point. Has anyone studied the effect of magnification on color? My equipment and software does have limits. Maybe that is one.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:38 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Cells of a Leaf from the Lawn
- Replies: 2
- Views: 86
Cells of a Leaf from the Lawn
This is a demonstration of what a microscope does to a small lawn leaf. It goes from a macro image to full magnification under the microscope (about 30x to about 1,000 X).
https://youtu.be/l7EIrgzR7hw
https://youtu.be/l7EIrgzR7hw
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Microbes At Home
- Replies: 0
- Views: 70
Microbes At Home
The surface of the water is now covered with decayed leaves. Gasses collect under the grass and over the water surface tension. Colonies of protists move under disintegrating pieces of leaves. The cell structure of the decayed leaves is altered as the vegetation is being digested in the biofilm. htt...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 3:02 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Museum beetle
- Replies: 2
- Views: 153
Re: Museum beetle
Wow!
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 3:01 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: The Onion Skin Devil
- Replies: 4
- Views: 172
Re: The Onion Skin Devil
I agree
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 3:33 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: The Onion Skin Devil
- Replies: 4
- Views: 172
Re: The Onion Skin Devil
Thanks for that methodology. I obviously didn't do much to prepare my specimens and the product shows it.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: The Onion Skin Devil
- Replies: 4
- Views: 172
The Onion Skin Devil
Taking microscope images of onion skin is supposed to be an elementary exercise usually not worth the efforts of serious hobbyists. I found it pretty hard to do. For one thing onions make gaseous fumes which tend to fog lenses. I also found the skins difficult to gracefully cut. Anyway I got some pi...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:00 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Golden nematode.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 106
Re: Golden nematode.
Nice color.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:59 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Maybe Something New Coming
- Replies: 5
- Views: 221
Re: Maybe Something New Coming
small bow
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:30 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Microscopic Sheep and Herders
- Replies: 0
- Views: 71
Microscopic Sheep and Herders
Well, that title pretty much covers the whole place, even where the citizens are just resting. These protists are grazers in a resource-rich region. They live in a resource-rich environment and feed on the product of protists who make the milk--i.e. predigested vegetation. They don't have to hunt. T...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Time Travel
- Replies: 0
- Views: 55
Time Travel
I stay here
day after day
Imagining.
I tax my memory.
I warm the past,
drag it from the darkness.
I am constructed
with devices to
deny time. I
stretch the present
and pull it out
into a cover for time.
I find the treasures
to re-ignite.
I dream the past.
day after day
Imagining.
I tax my memory.
I warm the past,
drag it from the darkness.
I am constructed
with devices to
deny time. I
stretch the present
and pull it out
into a cover for time.
I find the treasures
to re-ignite.
I dream the past.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:46 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Trichamoeba ameba
- Replies: 2
- Views: 132
Re: Trichamoeba ameba
Wonderful color and texture!
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:34 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Un-scraped and Scraped Grass Blades
- Replies: 0
- Views: 70
Un-scraped and Scraped Grass Blades
The new grass is finally showing green in the lawn after a long cold season in Winnipeg. I took a sample of a small broad leaf grass in the lawn. I looked at it un-scraped and then I scraped the outer layer of cells (top then bottom) to clear the cell membranes.
https://youtu.be/e2aTQtJ6ars
https://youtu.be/e2aTQtJ6ars
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 3:10 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: It Keeps Getting Denser
- Replies: 0
- Views: 76
It Keeps Getting Denser
The biome is a pile of living things moving through a syrup of digested vegetation. The cell structure of the leaf residue is lost. It is now a mass of dense green syrup with lumps of still undigested leaf structure. I can no longer discern the cell structure in what was grassy leaves before. https:...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Maybe Something New Coming
- Replies: 5
- Views: 221
Re: Maybe Something New Coming
Wow! Thanks for the kind words. You know you are feeding a huge ego. I never saw much color in the world of microbes. They are usually translucent.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Maybe Something New Coming
- Replies: 5
- Views: 221
Maybe Something New Coming
I've been watching this biome for weeks. It's a very dense biofilm with bits of solid material floating through it. The digestion of much of the vegetation by the protists is clear. Now I am seeing an ameba returning. It seems like the range and variety of protists may still develop with time. https...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 6:34 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Rotifer hatching
- Replies: 4
- Views: 150
Re: Rotifer hatching
Thanks--that guided my looking.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 3:21 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: A New Grass
- Replies: 0
- Views: 67
A New Grass
I celebrated Spring by examining a brand new blade of grass from root to leaf. The root was still coated with dirt, exactly as it emerged from the soil. I used magnifications from digital microscope to high power objective for these images.
https://youtu.be/8gSEIvjYI9A
https://youtu.be/8gSEIvjYI9A