Bruno Esteves

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 Hey everyone, I’ve found my first tardigrade today ! I found the little face he is making in this picture really funny. I made a video about him, in the end there is a creature I found while searching for the tardigrade that I can’t identify, If anyone is willing to give it a gess you are more than welcome!! Here is the link:
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 Hope you all have a good day and I wish you good luck finding micro creatures 😉
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First Tardigrade found!

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 Hey everyone, today I was trying to film a tardigrade in a free moving environment, and by chance I filmed one being spooked by the fast movements of another creature and just legging it xD I don’t know the specie of the worm like creature this time either so if any of you would like to give a guess for its ID please do.
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 I made a video of the encounter, the ones I have seen all seem pretty slow but once this one started running. I was having trouble not losing him! They can be really fast if they don’t slip on the glass
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 Having great fun finding this creatures with my foldscope, amazing how easy it is to find interesting stuff!
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Water bear running from worm like creature

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 Hey everyone, I’ve collected some water from the bottom plate of a plant pot to see what I would find there.
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 I was completely blown away by the amount of things moving, and by the amazing diversity of species I could find. Their circling movements and erratic wiggling seemed like a dance to me! Unfortunately I don’t have a background on micro biology so everytime I want to learn more about a specie I found I have to spend ages going thru species lists to try and discover what they are, so If any of you could help with this I would be immensely grateful!
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 I recorded them with my phone, the creatures I still could not identify are the one ate this times:
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 1:23 – curious circular motion
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 2:15 – appears to have tentacles and to be fast moving
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 2:58
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 There are also 2 more creatures that I really want to find more about, this ones were big and easy to follow so I made a video on each one of them. The first one seems like a larva of some kind, and the second one (much bigger) seems like some kind of worm, I was curious especially because only its head was opaque, suggesting it being made of some hard material.
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 Unidentified Larva
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 Unidentified worm
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 I’m sorry if you don’t like the soundtrack, I like to record things as they made me feel when I found them and they seemed a little creepy to me, especially since I didn’t expect to find anything of their size xD
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 Thank you in advance to anyone who is willing to give a guess on the species!
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 Good luck finding amazing creatures in the microcosmos!
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Bruno Esteves

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Water bear running from worm like creature

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