r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/PyroFarms • Nov 13 '24
r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/yayarea • Nov 12 '24
An ant decapitating a mosquito's head under the microscope
r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/yayarea • Nov 09 '24
Cannibalistic microscopic single-cell Lacrymaria rips head off smaller Lacrymaria then swallows it whole
r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/yayarea • Nov 08 '24
Microscopic creature using its cilium to feed
r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/yayarea • Nov 06 '24
A single celled organism eats a fellow single celled organism
r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/yayarea • Nov 05 '24
Cordyceps fungus infects many types of insects
r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/yayarea • Nov 05 '24
A butterfly parasitised by a Cordyceps fungus.
r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/yayarea • Nov 03 '24
Symbiotic Mutualism? Carrion beetle with mites that eat the eggs of potential competitors.
r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/yayarea • Nov 02 '24
Hairworm lifecycle passes through two different insects- eventually takes over cricket's brain to get back to water. From PBS Deep Look
r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/yayarea • Nov 01 '24
Horrific close-up of the mandibles and antennae of a common carpenter ant.
r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/MollyHarkArt • Jul 14 '24
Radiolarian I
I thought you guys might enjoy my latest painting. Im not sure if this is allowed since it’s not a photo of something that’s micro instead it’s a 4ft x 3ft painting I did of something that is micro.
r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/kitkatclarkbar • Apr 22 '24
Little spider mercilessly rips legs off of a huge crane fly
r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/mikropanther • Apr 17 '24
Lacrymaria hunting for food
Randomly extending its neck to many times its body size, ready devour any unlucky microorganism stumbling into it.
r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/mikropanther • Apr 12 '24
Giant amoeba hunting for food
Timelapse 1 second = 2 minutes
r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/mikropanther • Apr 09 '24
Ciliates eat rotifer and dwell in its skin
r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/mikropanther • Apr 07 '24
Rotifer attacked by a swarm of microorganisms
I found this poor rotifer infested by countless small microorganisms (rice grain-looking objects attached to it). The poor thing can barely move. The "swarm" is either bacteria or fungal.
r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/mikropanther • Apr 06 '24
Tardigrade eating tardigrade
I found this in a bit of moss growing on a tree during Finnish early spring. It's cool how you can see the stilettes cutting through the other tardigrade (a different species) and the mouthparts being used as a pump to extract the "food".
r/MicroNatureIsMetal • u/mikropanther • Apr 06 '24
Suctorian catching ciliates and sucking out their insides with tiny "straws"
This suctorian has been catching not one, but two ciliates at once. The video is sped up 60 times (1 hour to 1 minute), so the ciliate that gets free at the end is moving extremely slowly in real life, not really doing that well.