Maithili Sawant

Few more insects which have started to turn up at home this year. Rainy season in Mumbai is a real time for foldscoping. Not just the greenery but the tiny insect community also come into full action. Being the only time where they can be magnified under microscope.


 I am adding few pictures and videos of my observations. Hope you all like it! 🙂

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Hairy Rainy Flies

Hey guys! Always wanted to observe
 
 Drosophila
 
 (fruit fly) , but couldn’t catch one for days. Now found a convenient method. Caught the fly in a jar and kept it for a week. The fly doesn’t crush as when we try to catch it and can be easily observed under our foldscope! 🙂


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Drosophila

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 Admiring beauty of these flowers just couldn’t resist studying under foldscope!🙂


 Petals:


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 L.S. Leaf:


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 Section through bud:
 


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 Anther:
 


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 Pollen:
 


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 Ovary:


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 Bud Trichome:


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 Seeds :
 


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 Macro picture of flower:


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 It was difficult searching for the pollen. But the section through bud gave great results than mature flowers. Concluded that its a monoecious , dicot plant with unique seed dispersal mechanism. The seed bearing bud-like structures burst with slightest pressure when touched. Learning about this mechanism now. 🙂 Thanks to Lakshmi sir and Mayuresh sir who helped me identify the plant and distinguish between similar structures.
 


 Happy foldscoping! 🙂

Impatiens balsamina

Hi guys! First post with new foldscope. The microbe is a common wild type Tetrahymena from onion root soil sample. We learnt about this organism in theory about its self splicing RNA mechanism and getting to see the organism visually was just a great experience.

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 The resolution and stability in capturing video is even more amazing this time.

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Wild Tetrahymena

Hi! These pictures were captured really long back..sorry for not posting earlier. Wanted to contribute in Lakshmi sir’s pollen data base.


 Macro picture of flower:


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 Dry pollen:


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 <img alt="IMG_20170129_185744_HDR" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-26888 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="26888" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2","credit":"","camera":"Redmi 3S","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1485716264","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.225","iso":"635","shutter_speed":"0.03030303030303","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="IMG_20170129_185744_HDR" data-recalc-dims="1" height="225" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_26883/IMG_20170129_185744_HDR.jpg" width="300"/>


 Petal:


 <img alt="IMG_20170129_184720_HDR" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-26891 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="26891" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2","credit":"","camera":"Redmi 3S","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1485715640","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.225","iso":"3327","shutter_speed":"0.083333333333333","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="IMG_20170129_184720_HDR" data-recalc-dims="1" height="225" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_26883/IMG_20170129_184720_HDR.jpg" width="300"/>


 Happy Foldscoping~

Rose pollen

Hello! This observation is of last year. But now again they have started to infest my home so couldn’t stop from posting these rainy-flies.


 This is how they attack in bulk.


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 And now under foldscope:


 <img alt="IMG_20160917_235337" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-27070 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="27070" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"HM 1S","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1039348800","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.85","iso":"400","shutter_speed":"0.05","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="IMG_20160917_235337" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_27077/IMG_20160917_235337.jpg" width="169"/>
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 <img alt="IMG_20160918_000308_HDR" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-27064 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="27064" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"HM 1S","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1039348800","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.85","iso":"139","shutter_speed":"0.01","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="IMG_20160918_000308_HDR" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_27077/IMG_20160918_000308_HDR.jpg" width="169"/>
 <img alt="IMG_20160917_235710_HDR" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-27067 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="27067" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"HM 1S","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1039348800","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.85","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.01","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="IMG_20160917_235710_HDR" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_27077/IMG_20160917_235710_HDR.jpg" width="169"/>
 <img alt="IMG_20160917_235759_HDR" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-27069 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="27069" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"HM 1S","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1039348800","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.85","iso":"101","shutter_speed":"0.01","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="IMG_20160917_235759_HDR" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_27077/IMG_20160917_235759_HDR.jpg" width="169"/>
 <img alt="IMG_20160917_235834_HDR" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-27074 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="27074" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"HM 1S","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1039348800","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.85","iso":"104","shutter_speed":"0.01","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="IMG_20160917_235834_HDR" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_27077/IMG_20160917_235834_HDR.jpg" width="169"/>


 Trying not to kill them by closing the windows and shooing away by switching off the lights. They become a real mess sometimes though.


 Happy Foldscoping~

Maithili Sawant

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