Soumitra Banerjee

Place:
 
 Brilliant
Public School, Shamurou, Imphal-West, Manipur


 
 Audience:
 
 High school students


 
 Samples
studied:
 

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 Leaf
structure
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 Flower
petals microstructure
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North-East Twinning Program: Hands-on-Demonstration of Foldscope and Its Practical Application in Education-#Indiafoldscopephase 1

Place:
 
 Tendogyan
Farmer’s Club, Tendogyan, Imphal (Manipur)


 
 Audience:
 
 Farmers


 
 Samples
studied:
 

<ol>
 <li>
 Diseased
paddy leaf- microstructure
 </li>
 <li>
 Pond
water sample under foldscope
 </li>
</ol>
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 <figure>
 <img alt="IMG_20181208_113851" class="wp-image-118384 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="118384" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="118384" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"Lenovo A7020a48","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1544269131","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.68","iso":"163","shutter_speed":"0.019998","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20181208_113851" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=118384" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_118383/IMG_20181208_113851.jpg"/>
 </figure>
 </li>
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 <figure>
 <img alt="IMG_20181208_112707" class="wp-image-118385 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="118385" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="118385" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"Lenovo A7020a48","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1544268427","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.68","iso":"123","shutter_speed":"0.009999","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20181208_112707" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=118385" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_118383/IMG_20181208_112707.jpg"/>
 </figure>
 </li>
</ul>

North-East Twinning Program: Hands-on-Training and Demonstration of Foldscope and Its Practical Application in Agriculture and Allied Fields- #Indiafoldscopephase 1

Vidya GA and Soumitra Banerjee


 CIIRC-Jyothy Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Karnataka


 Fungal diseases can be a major problem of tomatoes. A fungal infection can spread rapidly through tomato leaves and eventually to the fruit. Some of the most common fungal diseases that infect tomatoes grown in the home garden include Anthracnose fruit rot, Early blight, Late blight, and Buckeye rot all which produce distinct symptoms making them easily diagnosable by the home gardener. The fungal spores on tomato were observed under foldscope.

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 <img alt="tomato1" class="wp-image-169467 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="169467" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="169467" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="tomato1" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=169467" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_169465/tomato1.jpg"/>
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 Fig. Spoiled tomato



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 <figure>
 <img alt="tomato4" class="wp-image-169469 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="169469" data-comments-opened="1" data-id="169469" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="tomato4" data-link="https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?attachment_id=169469" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_169465/tomato4.jpg"/>
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 Fig. Spoilage observed under foldscope

Fungal spores on tomato

Coriander is an annual herb in the family Apiaceae. It is also known as Chinese parsley. All parts of the plant are edible, but the fresh leaves and the dried seeds are commonly used for cooking. The coriander plant was washed in distilled water and the wash water was observed under foldscope. Live motile microorganisms were found in the wash water.



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 Video: Live microorganisms found in the corriender plant wash water

Microbes observed in coriander plant

Germinated horsegram seedlings were infected with cottony white mold mass. There are many possible types of fungi or
 <a alt="Slime_mould" class="gcloudimg" href="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_53008/Slime_mould">
 slime mould
 </a>
 could cause the infection.


 <img alt="IMG_20180806_100224" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-53012 aligncenter gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="53012" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"XT1706","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1533549744","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"345","shutter_speed":"0.040001","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180806_100224" data-recalc-dims="1" height="268" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_53008/IMG_20180806_100224.jpg" width="300"/>


 Fig. Infested horsegram


 Fungal mycelia and spores were observed under foldscope by taking small cottony scrap.


 <img alt="IMG_20180709_111042" class="alignnone wp-image-53013 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="53013" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"XT1706","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1531134642","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"90","shutter_speed":"0.004856","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180709_111042" data-recalc-dims="1" height="250" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_53008/IMG_20180709_111042.jpg" width="336"/>
 <img alt="IMG_20180709_111532" class="alignnone wp-image-53014 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="53014" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"XT1706","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1531134932","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"88","shutter_speed":"0.005194","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180709_111532" data-recalc-dims="1" height="255" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_53008/IMG_20180709_111532.jpg" width="171"/>
 <img alt="IMG_20180709_112209" class="alignnone wp-image-53015 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="53015" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"Lenovo A7020a48","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1531135329","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.68","iso":"112","shutter_speed":"0.00834","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180709_112209" data-recalc-dims="1" height="250" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_53008/IMG_20180709_112209.jpg" width="310"/>


 Fig. Mycelium of white mold under foldscope


 <img alt="IMG_20180710_112830" class="alignnone wp-image-53016 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="53016" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"Lenovo A7020a48","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1531222110","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.68","iso":"133","shutter_speed":"0.009999","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180710_112830" data-recalc-dims="1" height="239" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_53008/IMG_20180710_112830.jpg" width="239"/>
 <img alt="IMG_20180710_113129" class="alignnone wp-image-53017 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="53017" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"Lenovo A7020a48","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1531222289","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.68","iso":"199","shutter_speed":"0.009999","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180710_113129" data-recalc-dims="1" height="239" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_53008/IMG_20180710_113129.jpg" width="238"/>
 <img alt="IMG_20180710_114157" class="alignnone wp-image-53018 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="53018" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"Lenovo A7020a48","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1531222917","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.68","iso":"118","shutter_speed":"0.00549","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180710_114157" data-recalc-dims="1" height="239" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_53008/IMG_20180710_114157.jpg" width="238"/>
 <img alt="IMG_20180710_114605" class="alignnone wp-image-53019 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="53019" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"Lenovo A7020a48","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1531223165","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.68","iso":"145","shutter_speed":"0.039995","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180710_114605" data-recalc-dims="1" height="235" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_53008/IMG_20180710_114605.jpg" width="235"/>


 Fig. Spores of white mold


 Mycelium was grown inside the radicle part of seedling also.


 <img alt="IMG_20180710_113928" class="size-medium wp-image-53026 aligncenter gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="53026" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"Lenovo A7020a48","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1531222769","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.68","iso":"120","shutter_speed":"0.029996","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180710_113928" data-recalc-dims="1" height="224" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_53008/IMG_20180710_113928.jpg" width="300"/>


 Fig. Growth of mycelium inside the radicle




 <a href="https://thewinnower.com/papers/9286-horsegram-fungal-infestaion-observed-under-foldscope-indiafoldscopephase-1" target="_blank">
 This post is open to read and review on The Winnower.
 </a>

Horsegram fungal infestaion observed under foldscope-#Indiafoldscopephase 1

Thin epidermis membrane from the layers of onion was pulled out and mounted on glass slide using a drop of water and cover slip, observed under foldscope.


 A large rectangular interlocked cells with distinct cell walls was observed.


 <img alt="IMG_20180731_142930" class="alignnone wp-image-53043 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="53043" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"Lenovo A7020a48","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1533047370","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.68","iso":"112","shutter_speed":"0.002163","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180731_142930" data-recalc-dims="1" height="192" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_53035/IMG_20180731_142930.jpg" width="341"/>
 <img alt="IMG_20180731_143029" class="alignnone wp-image-53051 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="53051" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"Lenovo A7020a48","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1533047429","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.68","iso":"112","shutter_speed":"0.002556","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180731_143029" data-recalc-dims="1" height="190" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_53035/IMG_20180731_143029.jpg" width="339"/>


 Fig. Onion cells without staining under foldscope


 Safranin was used to stain the cells.


 <img alt="IMG_20180731_145046" class="alignnone wp-image-53045 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="53045" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"Lenovo A7020a48","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1533048648","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.68","iso":"123","shutter_speed":"0.019998","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180731_145046" data-recalc-dims="1" height="193" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_53035/IMG_20180731_145046.jpg" width="343"/>
 <img alt="IMG_20180731_144641" class="alignnone wp-image-53044 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="53044" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"Lenovo A7020a48","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1533048401","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.68","iso":"112","shutter_speed":"0.004144","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180731_144641" data-recalc-dims="1" height="194" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_53035/IMG_20180731_144641.jpg" width="343"/>


 Fig. Onion cells stained with safranin.


 <a href="https://thewinnower.com/papers/9287-onion-cells-under-foldscope-indiafoldscopephase-1" target="_blank">
 This post is open to read and review on The Winnower.
 </a>

Onion cells under foldscope-#Indiafoldscopephase 1

There was some powdery mass like infection we found on lower surface of drumstick leaves.  We brought those l
 
 eaves
 
 
 into lab and observed under foldscope and we found amazing things.
 


 <img alt="IMG_20180825_151409" class="size-medium wp-image-61354 aligncenter gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="61354" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"Lenovo A7020a48","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1535210049","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.68","iso":"515","shutter_speed":"0.039995","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180825_151409" data-recalc-dims="1" height="169" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_61352/IMG_20180825_151409.jpg" width="300"/>


 Fig: Infestation found on drumstick leaves


 We found some circular embryo like structures, along with spores of fungus and also we found lot of mite body parts.


 <img alt="IMG_20180825_160436" class="alignnone wp-image-61355 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="61355" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"Lenovo A7020a48","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1535213076","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.68","iso":"123","shutter_speed":"0.019998","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180825_160436" data-recalc-dims="1" height="265" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_61352/IMG_20180825_160436.jpg" width="318"/>
 <img alt="IMG_20180831_111922" class="alignnone wp-image-61359 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="61359" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"XT1706","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1535714362","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"110","shutter_speed":"0.009997","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180831_111922" data-recalc-dims="1" height="258" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_61352/IMG_20180831_111922.jpg" width="288"/>


 Fig: Mite found under foldscope


 <img alt="IMG_20180828_143120" class="alignnone wp-image-61370 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="61370" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"Lenovo A7020a48","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1535466680","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.68","iso":"208","shutter_speed":"0.009999","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180828_143120" data-recalc-dims="1" height="268" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_61352/IMG_20180828_143120.jpg" width="313"/>
 <img alt="IMG_20180831_160630" class="alignnone wp-image-61363 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="61363" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"XT1706","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1535731590","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"719","shutter_speed":"0.049998","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180831_160630" data-recalc-dims="1" height="268" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_61352/IMG_20180831_160630.jpg" style="font-size: 1.8rem" width="290"/>
 <img alt="IMG_20180831_120845" class="alignnone wp-image-61360 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="61360" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"XT1706","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1535717325","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"112","shutter_speed":"0.009997","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180831_120845" data-recalc-dims="1" height="269" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_61352/IMG_20180831_120845.jpg" style="font-size: 1.8rem" width="248"/>


 Fig: Fungal spores and egg like structures


 <img alt="IMG_20180831_121210" class="alignnone wp-image-61362 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="61362" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"XT1706","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1535717530","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"655","shutter_speed":"0.059995","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180831_121210" data-recalc-dims="1" height="244" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_61352/IMG_20180831_121210.jpg" width="271"/>
 <img alt="IMG_20180831_161143" class="alignnone wp-image-61364 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="61364" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"XT1706","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1535731903","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"653","shutter_speed":"0.059995","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180831_161143" data-recalc-dims="1" height="243" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_61352/IMG_20180831_161143.jpg" width="274"/>
 <img alt="IMG_20180831_161313" class="alignnone wp-image-61365 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="61365" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"XT1706","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1535731993","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.5","iso":"622","shutter_speed":"0.049998","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20180831_161313" data-recalc-dims="1" height="244" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_61352/IMG_20180831_161313.jpg" width="372"/>


 Fig: Embryo like structures along with Mite body parts




 <a href="https://thewinnower.com/papers/9396-infected-drumstick-leaves-indiafoldscopephase-1" target="_blank">
 This post is open to read and review on The Winnower.
 </a>

Infected drumstick leaves-#Indiafoldscopephase 1

Place:
 
 Maipakpi Memorial New Age Public School, Langthabal, Imphal, Manipur


 
 
 
 Audience:
 
 Students (65) and Teachers (5)


 
 Date:
 
 25.09.2018


 
 
 
 Samples studied with Foldscope:
 

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 Leaf and flower sample
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 Insect sample
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 Hairs
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 Chalk dust
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 Ant
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Rice Green Leafhoppers
 


 
 Scientific names:
 
 
 Nephotettix virescens, N. nigropictus, N. cincticeps
 


 
 Manipuri name
 
 :
 
 
 
 Marek asangbi
 


 The green rice leafhopper is one of the most devastating insects of cultivated rice(
 
 Oryzasativa
 
 L.) and distributed widely in Asia. They not only cause damage by sucking sap from phloem and xylem of susceptible cultivars causing a typical damage symptom known as hopper burn when populations are high, but also by transmitting viruses such as the rice tungro, rice dwarf, rice transitory yellowing and the yellow dwarf as a vector. Rice plants are most sensitive to the green leafhoppers at both seedling and booting stages. The sucking and oviposition by the leafhoppers make plants dwarfish or stunted. It causes feasible condition to the plants for the infection by either fungi or bacteria, or both of them. Heavy infestation around the booting to the heading stages makes the rice plants necrotic and often leads severe yield losses in rice.


 
 Morphological characteristics
 
 (as observed under foldscope)

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 Entire body is wedge-shaped, bright green about 3 mm in size with varying dark spots depending on species
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 Antennae is short, thin and  bristle-like (Fig 1)
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 Fore wing is smooth and  with green annal veins and dots (Fig 2)
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 Hind wing with annal veins forming a unique shapes(Fig 3)
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 Double row of spines running along the tibia of  hind legs (Fig 4)
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 Fig. 1: Antenna of green leaf hopper under foldscope


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 Fig. 2: Fore wing of green leaf hopper under foldscope


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 Fig. 3: Hind wing of green leaf hopper under foldscope


 <img alt="IMG_20181113_151442" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-86798 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="86798" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"Lenovo A7020a48","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1542122082","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.68","iso":"296","shutter_speed":"0.033337","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20181113_151442" data-recalc-dims="1" height="300" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_86729/IMG_20181113_151442.jpg" width="169"/>
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 <img alt="IMG_20181113_153058" class="alignnone wp-image-86805 gcloudimg" data-attachment-id="86805" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"2.2","credit":"","camera":"Lenovo A7020a48","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1542123058","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.68","iso":"342","shutter_speed":"0.033337","title":"","orientation":"1"}' data-image-title="IMG_20181113_153058" data-recalc-dims="1" height="205" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_86729/IMG_20181113_153058.jpg" width="364"/>


 Fig. 3: Hind leg of green leaf hopper under foldscope








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