these cabbage leaves are from my garden and i think it looks so cool!
Category: Nature
Things connected to observations in ecological context
A Camera-shy Tardigrade!
My first tardigrade – and a surprise at that. I looked into my Foldscope, and, without panning or focusing, the first thing that I saw was a slightly blurred, but recognisable little creature! Yesterday I scraped off some lichens from two trees on my street. I think they were the same kind of lichens; they…
Bioluminescent microbe
This is the picture of a bioluminescent microbe while I was examing the microbes in the water sample that was collected from vellayani lake, Thiruvananthapuram, It is the first time spotting a bioluminescent microbe from this lake, It will be showing a fluorescent red color This is the picture of that microbe without exhibiting the...
Fern Pinnae
Pinnae EdgeYoung Pinnae TipPinnae mid vein with side veinsPinnae mid vein with side veins Pinnae edgePinnae edge
Fern Rhizome
Amazing microscopic
My Hair
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Yeast cells
These tiny dots in the picture are the yeast cells….
Sneak peek into the nutty almonds
My very first sample and observation with the foldscope is this almond seed coat! I routinely soak the almonds every night to have them in the morning. Today morning as I peeled soaked almonds, I was just curious as to how they would appear under the microscope. The seed coat was peeled off, dried and…
A pool of life!
I noticed a green layer (presumably algae) growing on the terracotta pots on my terrace. All the pots have greenish growth on them, but they all look very different. One pot had a layer which was considerably thicker, and easy to scrape off. I soaked bits of it in regular tap water and let it…
Cactus pollen
Pollen and a petal from a Christmas cactus.
Sedum adolphi ‘Firestorm’
As a succulent enthusiast, the object I have chosen for scientific curiosity is a succulent called Sedum adolphi ‘firestorm,’ which were taken from my personal collection of succulents. I find it exciting to learn about the utilization organisms to produce or carry out functions related to the biomedical field. Examples are Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae,…
Moss springtail/ Colémbolo en musgo
Springtails from a moss sample! I was looking for tardigrades, I had never found Collembola in moss. Maybe a member of genus Brachystomella? ¡Colémbolos en una muestra de musgo! Estaba buscando tardígrados, es la primera vez que encuentro colémbolos en el musgo. ¿Podría ser del género Brachystomella?
Foldscope Figures
Not entirely sure what this is but it has liquid-like features. I was trying to to zoom in on cinnamon sugar when I came across this and decided this looked cooler (the cinnamon sugar clumped up so it did not make for a good sample). I'm thinking it's tape glue. My slides stuck together unevenly...
Wing of a Spotted-Lantern Fly
Wing of the invasive species, Spotted Lantern Fly found in Newark, Delaware.
Wing of Eastern Cicada-Killer Wasp
Wing of Eastern Cicada-Killer Wasp found in the basement of an apartment in Newark, Delaware.
Odonata wing
dragonfly wing 🙂
Filoplume
Bird feather, filoplume under the foldscope.
Spotted Lanternfly Wing
Veination within a spotted lanternfly wing
Spotted lanternfly forewing
The distal tip of a spotted lanternfly forewing with pustules visible
Carabid Beetle Elytra
Outside of the striated elytra of a ground beetle
Spotted lanternfly wing
(Hindwing)
Fungus gnat wing margin
Family: Sciaridae
Cockroach wing cells
(Hindwing)
Wasp wing
Photos of a wasp wing taken through Foldscope
Spores from a Tiny Fungus
Living in Florida sure does have a few benefits. Fungi grow everywhere here! When my professor in Central Florida gave me a foldscope, I didn’t know which fungus to look at because there are so many! In this photo circled is a mystery fungus that I wanted to look at. Also in this picture is…