For a second or two I thought it had caught and eaten the best part of another insect - nice one Paul.
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Nice shot Paul.
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Nice shot Sue. First time I've ever seen a tulip with pointy petals like this, it looks very nice Sue.
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Hi Ron and Ken - I did have a search and the book shows a fair number of similarly shaped algae, unfortunately they are all drawings so its next to impossible to get the ID without the colour.
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Beautiful darkfield shot Charlie. I don't seem to see many of these little fellas, I must look a bit further afield.
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What Ron said is right Charlie, this is one ugly ugly face, a very courageous shot Charlie.
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Hi Mike, a beautiful job here. I'm amazed that you could get a critter to stay still enough to get in three shots like this, well done M8t.
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This is absolutely fascinating Paul, I never knew that this behaviour occurred. Thanks for sharing this one.
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Excellent shooting Paul.
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These are two excellent images Gunn. In this image there does not appear to be an actual connection from spider to ant - is the ant suspended in the spiders web which we cannot see?
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Colourful images Ken, and a very interesting chat.
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This measured 12 microns only. The flagellum did not show here but I had seen it under phase contrast. This came from a slide packed with all kinds of different euglenas and I wondered if this also could be a euglena - there is a small reddish patch in the centre. Kenv http://www.photomacrography1.n...

A nice clear shot of these critters Ron.
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Ver nice shot Gerd, really good detail.
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Hi Gerd, I got this sample from a muddy puddle on the edge of a stream. The puddle wouldn't have been much more that a metre in diameter but contained a fair amount of filamentous algae and some green scum. The sample was crammed with all kinds of euglena of different sizes.
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