We had the annual “looking at muck down a microscope” practical last week. As usual, the best thing we saw was a ciliate in some pond water, in this case a little trumpet animalcule:
![Stentor sp. [CC-BY-SA-3.0 Steve Cook]](http://www.polypompholyx.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Stentor_sp..jpg)
Stentor sp. The green bits are either symbiotic algae, or dinner, possibly a bit of both.
2 comments
Laura
09/07/2015 at 13:05 (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Neat. I remember the boat-shaped diatoms that I saw in that practical in the first year. I hope that you’ll keep posting, because you post interesting thing!
polypompholyx
13/07/2015 at 08:49 (UTC 1) Link to this comment
Cheers! I have had about a dozen posts half-written since last summer, but keep not finding the time to finish them. I shall make an effort over the summer…