10X NA 0.25 objective, 10X eyepiece, Canon SD700 IS reporting 1/640 sec.
This is from that drainage ditch sample that produced the waterlice.
Offhand I think I see a bunch of colpidia, some paramecia, and a couple of different kinds of hypotrichs. One of the hypotrichs was gracious enough to show us a profile view, just to the right of center in the bottom panel. (This was a fairly thick drop, no cover slip at all, so the critters had a lot of room to turn over.)
All told, quite nice variety for a little chunk of muck!
--Rik
) that only cockroaches would survive. well we microscopists know that microbes would survive too, and eventually mother earth would get new children, that in turn would rape her over and kill her again and again...
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