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This Rotifer buildsa little tube for protection. The video shows it's crown of cilia (the Corona)in motion. The hairlike cilia move so fast that it looks as if there aretwo rotating wheels. This is why they are also known as Wheel animalcules.The cilia sweep in food particles like bacteria. The...

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MICROSCOPY UK / MICSCAPE coleps, protozoa

A recent sample taken from my freshwater aquarium yielded a comical little ciliate that I have not seen for quite some time. The barrel-shaped organism in question is Coleps and is said by most authors to be quite common in freshwater. The body appears to be covered in a layer of plates, rather...

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MICROSCOPY UK / MICSCAPE - Ant from the Antipodes , Australian ant

One of my grandsons went walkabout in Australia and sent me two very dried up ants. They were very brittle and one broke up, originally the bodies were brown except for the abdomen which was a blue/green colour obviously coloured by the...

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