Anti-Itch Cream Emulsion

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Are These Bacteria?

Living Cells in Tissue from a Squash that Was Outside in Winnipeg all Winter

My Son Marc, the Teacher

Studies of a Small Tropical Flower

 Stem

Petal

 Pollen Maker and Receiver

Pollen Grains

The Biofilm

 The biofilm (digi-microscope)

  The biofilm (digi-microscope)

The Microscope as a Painter: Mold Apocalypse

Algae Grow on a Potato Root

The Algae in Celebration

My Winnipeg Family

Bubbly Potato Root

Bubbles in layers.

Contemplating the Apple

Cells of an Apple Fruit and Skin

Fruit cells low and medium power

Apple Skin Cells Low, Medium, and high power

New Experiments with Dark Field

Using small dark field "filters" placed on my shelf over the light source and moved until optimum, I have found better levels of contrast and sharpness.

Pictures of the salt water sample.

Features on a Fly's Thigh

I'm experimenting with dark field and top stage illumination. I discovered that insect skin (the external skeleton) is not smooth but has a lot of texture and odd outgrowths such as horny extensions.

Trying to Understand the Anatomy of a Two-Millimeter Fly

I took a series of micrographs of a fly I found dead on the bathroom sink. The fly is not transparent so it's hard to get the details beyond the outline visible in the light microscope. I have to use a dark field technique with top stage lighting. I'm not very good with the microscope yet so getting these to work is hard for me. Then I have to try to figure out what I'm taking pictures of. In some parts of the fly it's not obvious.

The fly itself, taken with my digital microscope, is the first image . Then come higher magnification images that I try to identify with labels.

You can see that the fly is a little beat up in the slide--probably from carrying it to mount it.
Here are the micrographs.

a mysterious tube like protrusion on the thorax

 probably the antenna

 wing

 part of the antenna resting on the slide

 leg joint

 another leg joint

another picture of the wing