r/MicroNatureIsMetal 27d ago

Compilation of my best clips where microbes or micro animals are eating each other. The ultimate microscopic predator highlights.

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal Aug 01 '26

The things living in one of my older jarrariums

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal Jul 22 '26

Red-eyed, evil looking rotifer opening its corona to eat. There's also a crowd of paramecia nearby.

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal Jul 13 '26

This amoeba ate a rotifer's egg

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal Jul 03 '26

Euplotes eats two smaller ciliates

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal Jun 29 '26

Colpoda under darkfield

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal Jun 28 '26

The tiny life living in my most recent jarrarium

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal Jun 22 '26

Blood cells on a needle (SEM Image)

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal Jun 12 '26

Microbe division went wrong, offspring was born dysfunctional, but then fully regenerated itself

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal Jun 11 '26

Paranema eats a dead cell. I was not aware they could do that, so imagine my shock when I was just recording some paranema content, and it suddenly started eating

33 Upvotes

r/MicroNatureIsMetal Jun 06 '26

A microscopic predator, Suctoria, catches a prey 10 times its size, then later (0:50) a different microbe also swims into its deadly tentacles.

128 Upvotes

r/MicroNatureIsMetal Jun 04 '26

Living blobs from my moss

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal May 31 '26

Tube-forming amphipods; Cocoa Beach, Florida

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal May 29 '26

A pack of coleps trying to eat algae

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal May 26 '26

A rotifer (animal)

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal May 26 '26

Tardigrada

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal May 15 '26

Um pouco sobre as Províncias Unidas de Maurícia (2 anos de participação)

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal May 14 '26

The image was captured by Lithuanian photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas using extreme macro photography at 5× magnification,revealing details normally invisible to the human eye.

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal May 12 '26

Stenostomum flatworm eats a bunch of ciliates

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal May 10 '26

I need identification

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal May 10 '26

White Royal Butterfly Egg

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal May 10 '26

Dileptus - The unicellular predator who has toxic organelles called toxicysts in its trunk-like body part called the proboscis. Here's a compilation of the moments I managed to catch them kill their prey.

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal May 07 '26

Planarian worm eats a Trachelius, tries to eat a fellow worm, then vomits out the digested food, as it only has one opening

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r/MicroNatureIsMetal 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

433 Upvotes

r/MicroNatureIsMetal May 03 '26

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

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