Through the phone via microscope and macro lens attachment

I have been looking at a variety of things and taking photographs through my phone.

The following images were taken through the microscope.

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From the recent PMS box – stonefly nymph mouthparts.

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More from the PMS box, stonefly nymph foot.

Cranefly foot

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Found insect (hoverfly) wing

Guard cells on stem of rhubarb

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Butterwort glandular hairs.

Salt crystal

The next set of images was taken using a macro lens attachment on my phone.

Aphids

Aphids

Flower centre

Goosegrass

Goosegrass

Found insect (hoverfly) wing

Sundew flower

Sugar crystals

I dissolved some sugar, put a drop on a microscope slide and waited for the solution to crystalise.

 

In Photoshop I then played around with some transformations.

Pencil sharpening

Today I looked at a variety of pencil sharpenings under the microscope.

All the images were taken through the microscope using my phone.

Borax crystals under polarised light

A bit of an experiment with borax. The first set of pictures was taken using the TrueChrome II camera with stacking.

 

The second set were taken through my phone with no stacking.

 

Roots in cross section

Some stitched images of roots in cross section.

 

Bean root TS

Carrot tap root TS

Pea root TS

More from the pond

There was quite a lot of daphnia activity as they grazed along the filamentous algae.

 

 

I slowed down the action to show how the legs cause  a current of food to be drawn in.

 

This next video is an enlargement from the previous one.

 

 

 

Dividing into two

I wasn’t having a particularly productive morning as I looked at pond water, and then I caught sight of this Vorticella.

I videoed it for 36 minutes, and have speeded up the video 20x.

 

Polycystina from two different slides

The recent PMS box had a slide of Polycystina. They had been dry mounted so top lighting was used.

The other images are from a prepared slide I have in my collection and I was able to use transmitted light. Helicon stacking software was used for both sets of images.

Watch bits and pieces

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Morning with the microscope

The other morning I got the microscopes out for their first foray of 2016.

As I peered down the eyepiece to look at the dead dragonfly I that had been sent through the post I was aware of lots of movement; the mites had moved in.

 

 

The bee and housefly that arrived with the dragonfly had fewer passengers.

 

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I then took a look at the water in the bird bath. Although there was less zapping around, the rotifers and paramecia were still there as well as plenty of algae and diatoms.

 

 

Finally, I scattered some pollen from the amaryllis that is flowering on the windowsill.