This was my first attempt at a foldscope. Viewed a drop of water collected from a pond in Guwahati, India.
Any idea what that larva-like organism might be?
It has some hand like thing also. As if trying to find a way out of a trap. Trying hard, getting tired, resting and trying again. I wonder what is the body of such organisms made up of because they are mostly transparent.
Oh my goodness, the first attempt is simply brilliant.. That Deepor Bil is full of life. It is a dipteran larva in all likelihood and perhaps a mosquito. I see the siphon tube through which it breathes and it has a brush at the top. Definitely a mosquito, doesnt look like culex or Anopheles though.. I too have a video of a another fellow, will post.
I love the background of the other life. There is a large Daphnia I think (which is dead) and so many little ciliates.
I hope you can collect some more water samples from Deepor Bil and investigate each of these chaps..
It has some hand like thing also. As if trying to find a way out of a trap. Trying hard, getting tired, resting and trying again. I wonder what is the body of such organisms made up of because they are mostly transparent.
Oh my goodness, the first attempt is simply brilliant.. That Deepor Bil is full of life. It is a dipteran larva in all likelihood and perhaps a mosquito. I see the siphon tube through which it breathes and it has a brush at the top. Definitely a mosquito, doesnt look like culex or Anopheles though.. I too have a video of a another fellow, will post.
I love the background of the other life. There is a large Daphnia I think (which is dead) and so many little ciliates.
I hope you can collect some more water samples from Deepor Bil and investigate each of these chaps..