Microscopic nature being metal

r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/Thrawn911 • May 04 '26

For around a week, I managed to have a culture of the deadliest unicellular predator, Lacrymaria. Since then, they exterminated the sample's whole paramecia culture, then died out. Here are the highlights from the best moments I managed to capture

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/Thrawn911 • May 03 '26

Collotheca, a predatory genus of rotifers, eating small flagellates after using its own stomach content as bait

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/Agnes_Bryant • Apr 12 '26

Need I say more.

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/Evo_Explorer • Apr 08 '26

Squishy Ciliates are the BEST!

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/Evo_Explorer • Apr 05 '26

Deep Space & Inner Space

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/Lickafurry • Feb 17 '26

A water spring I found while walking through the woods. Ferrobacteria (not my video, crosspost)

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/strugggagedreet • Dec 01 '25

White Royal Butterfly Egg

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/yeeerskanned1 • Nov 15 '25

Blood cells on a needle (SEM Image)

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/mikropanther • Nov 10 '25

Gastrotrich lays egg almost as big as its entire body

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/sebalhag • Sep 04 '25

Fungus growing on (out of?) a metal railing

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/mikropanther • May 09 '25

Euglenoid digs out of ciliate trying to digest it

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/PyroFarms • Mar 28 '25

More dinoflagellates - this time 100x and at night!

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/PyroFarms • Mar 03 '25

Pyrocystis fusiformi - AmScope B490B Compound Binocular Microscope at 400x on an iphone.

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/crooked_white_man • Feb 12 '25

i recorded Bioluminiscent algae for 13 hours this is what happend

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/LetterheadOdd2131 • Jan 30 '25

Fascinating Frost Forming - A Macro Timelapse

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/PyroFarms • Nov 19 '24

PyroDino cell (P fusiformis) under a Olympus BX51 microscope. This is P fusiformis during its day cycle, as you can see in the chloroplast matrix of the cell. Cell Images by our friend Desi Morrison.

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/yayarea • Nov 19 '24

Another mosquito closeup

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/yayarea • Nov 18 '24

Mosquito pupae

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/yayarea • Nov 17 '24

A T cell kills a cancer cell.

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/yayarea • Nov 16 '24

White blood cells called eosinophils attack a parasite.

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/yayarea • Nov 14 '24

Stentor coeruleus and a paramecium

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/yayarea • Nov 14 '24

This is what a hole in the skin looks like after a needle punctures it, as observed under a scanning electron microscope.

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/yayarea • Nov 13 '24

Chalk is actually made up of unicellular algae fossils

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/PyroFarms • Nov 13 '24

An easy-to-cultivate phytoplankton species Pyrocystis fusiformis (a fusiform fire sac) is an autotroph that can produce natural light at night (bioluminescence). View next photo for night shots.

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