Cylindrothecia diatoms and a Ciliate in the Weep

[lethalgirl101]

hey,WLanier remember me?today in science class(remember im in 6th grade)we were looking through microscopes and we looked at euglena,diatoms,and planaria (the planaria looked sooo gross) but the specimen weren't moving because my science teacher forgot them in the office over the weekend and they died so we just looked at dead specimen ^^

[WLanier]

This particular videomicrograph was made with a Swift FM-31 LWD Field Microscope and a Nikon Coolpix 885 digital camera. The microscope illumination was from an LED flashlight. See Hiking With A Field Microscope web site and Hidden Ecologies BLOG site for more details.

[bradmann85]

lots of duct tape for all that. lol cool video though. that thing looks like a hairy bean.. the only things ive seen moving under a microscope was yiest, brine shrimp, and some round cell rolling around like a ball in and out of focus from water in a muddy ditch

[khlova]

The last one was probably a volvox. they are the coolest organisms of the protista kingdom

[jah3570]

very nice. What kind of equipment do you use to capture the video and what type of lighting is this?

[farceadentus]

lol

[WLanier]

Actually, to be honest, I use YouTube to hold videomicrographs for our Hidden Ecologies web site.

[kdgoodreau]

Now this is really why youtube was created.