Water Bears Tardigrades

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Robert Berdan
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Water Bears Tardigrades

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For the past 2 weeks I have been photographing Tardigrades also called Water bears collected from Moss and Lichen. I have found as many as 40 water bears in a single Lichen sample. They have 8 legs and crawl around the Petri dish. I posted an article on my web site along with video for those that might like to see more pictures but I wanted to share a few photos of these amazing creatures. I took the pictures with a Zeiss DIC microscope, 20 and 40X, 63X PlanAchromat objectives. I also used Rheinberg lighting on some and took a few photos with my Nikon Polarizing microscope 20X to show the underlying muscle. I used a Nikon D800 and Nikon D500 camera to capture the image using free software Digicam control on my laptop.

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Post by JH »

Nice and interesting, my favorite is the last one.
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Post by Jacek »

Very nice

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Post by Roel Wijtmans »

Those last two pictures are really nice! Now I really need to find tardigrades myself....

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Post by vasselle »

Very nice
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Post by hkv »

Super! I like the last one the best!
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Post by Sumguy01 »

:smt041 Nice set.
I like #3 best.
Thanks for sharing.

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