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microbe in sebum? unsure

#1 Post by mes0 » Mon Aug 31, 2015 5:05 am

sorry to be kind of gross but curious what these are..scratched a little sebum plug off a hair on my head and took a look..
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Re: microbe in sebum? unsure

#2 Post by Oliver » Mon Aug 31, 2015 6:08 am

Looks like a scale from a butterfly, especially the last two pictures.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_( ... n_anatomy)

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Re: microbe in sebum? unsure

#3 Post by apochronaut » Mon Aug 31, 2015 1:32 pm

Similar, to Oliver, I am pretty sure it is a wing scale but not necessarily a butterfly. Lepidoptera in general, have similar styled wing scales, so it could just as easily have been anything..... I have seen some fairies with wings that resemble butterfly wings, in books too. I am just wondering if the tooth fairy might have been around your place recently? I know those sorts, like to crap in your eyesockets at night, at least the ones around here do, so one could easily have dropped a wing scale on your noggin.
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#4 Post by mes0 » Mon Aug 31, 2015 2:20 pm

I can't tell if you're being serious or not Apo.
There's definitely no tooth fairies or insects that I know of anywhere near my head..

In the whole sebum plug I only found ten or so of these things..
I thought maybe some kind of fungal expression?
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#5 Post by gekko » Mon Aug 31, 2015 2:40 pm

:D I think apochronaut was "jokingly serious" :)
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#6 Post by mrsonchus » Mon Aug 31, 2015 3:59 pm

I'd say a wing-scale - certainly looks like one and is the right size...
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Re: microbe in sebum? unsure

#7 Post by jwsmith » Mon Aug 31, 2015 4:02 pm

apo...........the t o o t h f a i r y will/does/occasionally will/might.......crap in your eyesockets......!!!!!.......

Holy Toledo.......
Whutta thought.........
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Re: microbe in sebum? unsure

#8 Post by mes0 » Mon Aug 31, 2015 4:15 pm

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/ind ... olish.html

Here's a match.

I think what must have happened was I used the same cover slip as I had had on a mosquito a couple hours earlier and the slip picked up a few scales...
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Re: microbe in sebum? unsure

#9 Post by apochronaut » Mon Aug 31, 2015 6:14 pm

gotta, clean those coverslips. weren't looking at moth as well, were , you?
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#10 Post by mes0 » Mon Aug 31, 2015 6:27 pm

Once I get a lab setup I can have much better quality control...

No moths have been observed yet...just mosquito and spider so far :)
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Re: microbe in sebum? unsure

#11 Post by einman » Tue Sep 01, 2015 3:35 am

I can find nothing about tooth fairies in any of my books..

Can someone recommend a good tooth fairy identification book on Amazon?
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#12 Post by apochronaut » Tue Sep 01, 2015 8:03 am

not exactly; but you might find something in here. http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-k ... =linmin-20
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