Am I the only one who would straight up eat this amoeba? 😂 Maybe I could start a new type of candy based on this 👀
I used crossed polarization + a retarder and played with colours during the editing ☺️ hope you’ll enjoy it, even if it’s a repost✨
Free-living amoeba, just like this sparkly one, can be found all over the world, from freshwater to marine habitats, ponds, lakes, and even small temporary accumulations of water on soil after abundant rain. They mainly feed on bacteria , algae, yeasts, fungi and other protozoan organisms. They even feed on other amoebae😬! They’re known to control populations of bacteria as they prey on them, which make them pretty important on an ecological point of view.
They crawl and eat with the use of their pseudopods and are known to engulf the entirety of their preys as they’re giving them a big deathly hug 🤗 Since they’re none-swimmers, they’re mostly found on surface interfaces like between water and plants, water and animals, water and soils and even between water and air, like when there’s a pellicule of bacteria that forms on top of my samples; that’s where those amoebae at. These interfaces are usually rich in dissolved organic nutriments, which bacteria feed on, which attract amoebae 😄
Reference:
Salvador Rodríguez-Zaragoza (1994) Ecology of Free-Living Amoebae, Critical Reviews in Microbiology, 20:3, 225-241,
Video taken with my iPhone mounted on a BA310E Motic microscope with an @ilabcam adapter 🔬
I used crossed polarization + a retarder and played with colours during the editing ☺️ hope you’ll enjoy it, even if it’s a repost✨
Free-living amoeba, just like this sparkly one, can be found all over the world, from freshwater to marine habitats, ponds, lakes, and even small temporary accumulations of water on soil after abundant rain. They mainly feed on bacteria , algae, yeasts, fungi and other protozoan organisms. They even feed on other amoebae😬! They’re known to control populations of bacteria as they prey on them, which make them pretty important on an ecological point of view.
They crawl and eat with the use of their pseudopods and are known to engulf the entirety of their preys as they’re giving them a big deathly hug 🤗 Since they’re none-swimmers, they’re mostly found on surface interfaces like between water and plants, water and animals, water and soils and even between water and air, like when there’s a pellicule of bacteria that forms on top of my samples; that’s where those amoebae at. These interfaces are usually rich in dissolved organic nutriments, which bacteria feed on, which attract amoebae 😄
Reference:
Salvador Rodríguez-Zaragoza (1994) Ecology of Free-Living Amoebae, Critical Reviews in Microbiology, 20:3, 225-241,
Video taken with my iPhone mounted on a BA310E Motic microscope with an @ilabcam adapter 🔬
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