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 Hello everyone,
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  The compound eyes.
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 Hope you’re all having fun with your foldscopes and observing amazing stuff. A few days ago, in the water I collected from a sea shore puddle,I found algae which had colonies of vorticella growing on it. Sadly, all of it has degraded now and what is left is a few molluscs and some of these creatures which are crustaceans . I decided to observe them as their movements were fascinating, they moved quite fast and weren’t easy to catch which is why I wanted to see them alive.Normal slides would’ve crushed them, so,I’ve used a cavity slide this time. I Couldn’t take very clear pictures because it kept moving but managed to get videos which you all may like.
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 I could see its beautiful feet and the tail which it swayed as it moved across the watchglass. But then something absolutely gorgeous came to my sight.
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  It was an egg in the gut of the organism (it probably held it in its pleopods).
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 Because,from what I’ve read crustacean eggs are externally fertilized and are not laid soon after mating.
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   https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/InShot_20160925_192152.mp4
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 It kept swaying its feet which kept the egg tumbling and rolling in the field. I was really worried that it may end up harming it.
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  <source alt="InShot_20160927_112617.mp4" class="gcloudimg" src="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_19178/InShot_20160927_112617.mp4" type="video/mp4"/>
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   https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/InShot_20160927_112617.mp4
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 But then I managed to move it away from its pleopods and focus just on the egg.Here,
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  I could see the movements inside the egg.
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  <a alt="InShot_20160925_215013.mp4" class="gcloudimg" href="https://storage.googleapis.com/microcosmosdelta.appspot.com/images/transfer_19178/InShot_20160925_215013.mp4">
   https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/InShot_20160925_215013.mp4
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 </video>
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 I have saved this egg in a watch glass. Super exited to trace its development.
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 ~Have fun Foldscoping. 🙂
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<p class="winnower-cite-link">
 <a href="https://thewinnower.com/papers/5447-crustacean-and-its-egg" target="_blank">
  This post is open to read and review on The Winnower.
 </a>
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Crustacean and its Egg

Mitali | Mon, Sep 26, 2016, 11:48 PM

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