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- Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:50 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Leaf Cells Under Attack from Protists
- Replies: 0
- Views: 15
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: 158
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: 20
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: 1
- Views: 50
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: 50
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: 50
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: 34
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: 98
Re: Museum beetle
Wow!
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 3:01 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: The Onion Skin Devil
- Replies: 4
- Views: 99
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: 99
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: 99
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: 69
Re: Golden nematode.
Nice color.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:59 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Maybe Something New Coming
- Replies: 5
- Views: 156
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: 49
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: 36
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: 93
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: 44
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: 50
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: 156
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: 156
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: 97
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: 43
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
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:56 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Rotifer hatching
- Replies: 4
- Views: 97
Re: Rotifer hatching
Impressive catch. The only problem I can't tell what I'm seeing. Could you add a bit more description?
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:07 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: The Roof of the Microbe Settlement
- Replies: 0
- Views: 42
The Roof of the Microbe Settlement
This is more of the thickening vegetable shell floating on top of the water. The microbes are prospering as they process the proteins in the water and generate biofilm. I'm never bored watching them.
https://youtu.be/rAf17mHjmYI
https://youtu.be/rAf17mHjmYI
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:00 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Protists in Slightly Deeper Water
- Replies: 2
- Views: 73
Re: Protists in Slightly Deeper Water
Thanks Macmotion. I am actually seeing a little bit of eating other microbes behavior. That was missing until now. They were all absorption feeders.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:11 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Protists in Slightly Deeper Water
- Replies: 2
- Views: 73
Protists in Slightly Deeper Water
I just stuck my pipette close to the bottom of my water jar to get a sample. After several weeks my water sample has separated into a dense biome that sinks to the bottom of the jar and another biome which floats on top. The middle of the sample is clear water. There appear to be sampling difference...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:16 am
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Diatomaceous garbage dump
- Replies: 1
- Views: 108
Re: Diatomaceous garbage dump
Neat images!
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:37 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: Leaf of a Pineapple Fruit
- Replies: 0
- Views: 44
Leaf of a Pineapple Fruit
The pineapple fruit is topped by a formation of stiff stickery leaves. These are usually tossed off as unimportant. However, the leaves of a pineapple have their own unique look. They are very stiff and hard and close to protect the fruit almost like a shell. The cells are big and bold. They have a ...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 4:49 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: The Colony
- Replies: 0
- Views: 45
The Colony
This is basic life on Earth. They are all hungry and frantic. They couldn't servive if they weren't even if they knew what survival means. I see something in these pictures I have not seen for a while: instances where the protists look like they are actively feeding. Do they know? I keep asking the ...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:03 pm
- Forum: Pictures and Videos
- Topic: A Society of Hungry Protists
- Replies: 0
- Views: 49
A Society of Hungry Protists
This is basic life on Earth. They are all hungry and frantic. They couldn't survive if they weren't even if they knew what survival means. Do they know?
https://youtu.be/L85_7zQn90U
https://youtu.be/L85_7zQn90U