I was watching my grandson fish off the dock at Miller's Landing on Bass Lake. "Papa, there's a jellyfish". I think that most people...

Zico. March 28, 2022. There was still ice on the edges of the pond when the filamentous algae in which this specimen was found was...

The stream behind the lake house has proven to be a source of innumerable beautiful micro friends. I believe that this protozoan is a...

The root systems from the aquatic plants (duckweed) that I brought home from Tir na nOg this Summer and placed in the birdbath are still...

I've been trying for some time to get an improved image of a Stentor, one of my favorite creatures. I think that this is better than...

Bass Lake. Aug 2020. Closteria is an algae that is divided into two hemi-cells. It moves by secretion of mucilage. Note the vesicles at...

Bass Lake. August 2020. I noted a really interesting phenomenon of a colony of Vorticella attached to the shell of a small snail.

The community in the jar in the kitchen window continues to evolve. First, there was a bloom of haematococcus. Then, the Vorticellae...

This video was to be included with the other post. I don't know why it wasn't.

I have been frustrated with the low numbers of organisms in my samples. I have read for decades about how people a long time ago (like in...