It's not that long ago that, somehow, I'd never seen Fly Agaric. Whilst at Charnwood Lodge I found loads of fruiting bodies underneath the canopy of otherwise exposed trees ....
I've had another play with some squeezed moss soup. I've managed to get some
text and measurements from the camera software to merge onto the image, here's
another testate amoeba with a 100micron line for scale.
I can't get the measurement data to transfer to the video clips yet though, so
will probably need to dimension snaps to accompany them. Here's a rotifer of
some sort (I think!) - look at the extent of the disturbance it's causing
whilst 'hoovering' .... this is all happening within a merest veneer of soup
under a cover-slip - it's ridiculous really.
Meanwhile, I have absolutely no idea what this weird thing is propelling
itself around using cilia of some sort.
Believe it or not though, that's far from the strangest thing I've seen all day
...
I do like Isabella Rossellini, and I'm not at all surprised that
sado-maschism excites her. There's a whole load of these on the 'Green Porno'
Youtube channel, all equally weird yet informative.
