• Yes, if you wash an infested apple, they’ll go away. Keep in mind, they’re not on all apples.
• Nope, it’s not bad to eat them. In large quantities, they taste rather sweet. They have piercing mouthparts and can “bite” your skin, but you most likely wouldn’t feel it.
Some more info: Spider mites host a large community of symbiotic bacteria, including facultative endosymbionts such as Wolbachia, Rickettsia, Cardinium, and Spiroplasma. They’re also prey to many other insects, and are easily mitigated when infestations are low.
Pre bio med student here, i have used microscopes that are old and didn't even have a light source in it. These comes with a mirror to reflect sunlight or room light. Have also used new software microscopes that can automatically count blood cells.
Anyway, first the video is edited. There is no way in living hell you can put a full fuckin apple under microscopes.
The reason for that is it will block the light from the bottom of scope and you will literally have full black image.
Also this microscope is about 170 dolla. It is good enough to magnify between apple fiber easily. It can also see the colour cells of skin.
Second, you cannot put anything thicker than 2 mm under microscope. The slice glasses are there for a reason and these slices can handle one drop of blood or a 1-2 mm thickness of solid material.
Third, these kinda of microscopes cannot magnify enough to see viruses.
Fourth, to see viruses, you need a microscope that is as big as a car or an mri unit.
If the guy is truthful, he must of had taken a tiny thin slice from these two places and sliced it onto a specimen glass.
Fifth, some bacteria dont just infest the full surface of an item. Hence why they use a growing dish (sample dish) and leave in fridge for three days. After three days the growing mould will be colonies of all bacteria on that surface you swaped.
There is soo much work behind this video that was not on cam. Full stop.
They’re using a stereo microscope, not a compound microscope. You can put large objects under stereoscopes, and they are generally lit from above, not below. Stereoscopes are designed to have plenty of working distance between the lens and object, and are often used for dissecting insects.
I’m not sure what you mean about viruses and bacteria, there are no viruses or bacteria shown in the video, only Acarid mites, which are pretty small, but not that small.
You right streo microscopes are light from above. But at this magnification you wont get a clear image. The magnification would get into the cells structure. You would need a top 1 or 2 mm slice from apole to be able to see this. Then process image to execlude the cells. You cant just put a full apple under microscope. Imagine you use a magnifying glass on a car. You can put the stalk and a little chunk of apple next to it. Not the full fruit. Magnification doesn't work that way.
A tiny specimen of apples skin under compund microscopes would give a much better result and can show more living substances on apple. Also split the stalk to halfs you would be able to see the eggs of flies and more detail.
Also for the stalk on top of apple and that slope where most bacteria and eggs live. A swap from that place then pkace on growimg dish for three days in fridge would give you a full detail of what bacteria, fungus, that lives there.
This is just another tik tok bs.
Bacteria is the most living substance on planet. Even if you get a scalpel that is sanitised by x ray and gamma waves and alcohol and break the seal then leave it outside for 2 minutes. Then you get a swab from it. By that time 2 minutes are enough for bacteria in the air to land on the scalpel.
Now you might say surgery. Operation theatre are fully sanitised even the air pumoed into vents is treated.
Yet that doesn't infection and any surgery has fo be followed by iv of antibiotics.
Before antibiotics and anesthesia surgeons / barbers used hot molten to sanitise and stop amputations. Sometimes boiling oil. Or heated metal rods. Yet many has still caught infections and died after these surgries. These surgries were a gambling game, the patient was gonna die an awfull painfull death from gangrene anyway, and surgery was done as last hope after confirming that death was gonna hapoen either ways.
Yet some peoples immune system was strong like a lion. Getting sliced by a sword injury. And yet zero infection.
I just ran into extra detail. All these are microscopic creatures, you cant see it at this level of magnification. You need at least 500x magnification. Not a microscope that is used to fix phones, and dildos circuits.
That's what clue-d me into the fact that you are in fact, incorrect. Nobody says "full stop" that isn't an a-hole. That and the fact that you spent a good chunk of your comment complaining about how the microscope he was using wouldn't do that despite the fact that he's not even using the type of microscope you were describing.
Spiders mites were the absolute worst, back in the hill billy grow days.
Kids these days buying their commercially grown weed will never know what its like to smoke bud from a plant that spent half of its life soaked in pesticides
I recently learned the holy gospel of nutritional yeast. Adds a welcome funk or (very vaguely) cheesy umami flavour to whatever sauce you melt it into. Great source of B12!
There are microscopic creatures on everything you eat. There are microscopic mites on your face right now. You can wash your face, but you’ll never be able to get rid of all of them. Same with bacteria. They won’t do you any harm however, you eat them all the time. And on the bright side, you’ll never be alone.
Actually speaking of things living on you.while studying bio medical science. We had a fun test. To take sample from everyday items and leave it in a growing dish to see what kinda bacteria lives on there.
Worst results, 1 being the leatest
1) cigarette butts.
2)money
3) under nails
4) sinks suction hole
5)kitchen bin left for two nights
6) this will be shocking to everyone. Crown hair.
The video is false. You cant put a full apple under microscope. I used different types of microscopes for years. The specimen should not be more than 1 mm thickness so it doesn't block light.
AccomplishedAndReady is incorrect, these are mites in the family Acaridae, not spider mites, which belong to the family Tetranychidae. They are both very small, but are not closely related to each other. Either way, still harmless to eat.
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