A different Carnivore

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A different Carnivore

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Post by NikonUser » Mon Aug 16, 2010 5:32 pm

This is a single bladder of an aquatic Bladderwort, width of the bladder is 1.6 mm.
Lots of info on the web about these plants, I found this one informative
HERE

Top: Oly D Plan 4x, 2.5 photoeyepiece; flash
Bottom: 1000 px selection showing the trigger hairs; would need a 2x objective or lower powered photoeyepiece to get all the trigger hairs in the FOV

ZS PMax

Not the best subject for stacking; loses the depth feature of the bladder; still experimenting with my 'new' microscope.
Some of the dark blobs in the bladder are small animals being digested, other stuff is probably just junk that got sucked in by accident; there is a piece of filamentous algae and a desmid in the bladder.

NUM10004

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student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.

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