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A close up of a flower with white petals. The stamens are covered in bright yellow grains of pollen.

A close-up image of several bright green aphids clustered on a plant stem. The aphids have translucent bodies and delicate legs, with visible antennae extending from their heads. The plant stem is covered in tiny reddish-brown spots. The background is slightly blurred, with hints of white flower petals visible.

An image of a small cluster of white flowers, next to a quarter for scale.

This weekend I went out in search of some fun things to look at on my microscope and found some flowers that I thought would be cute.

And they are cute, but even better, they were COVERED in aphids. Probably not great for the plants, but a very fun surprise for me.

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Microscopic image of a dandelion seed head, with thin, hair-like filaments extending outward in a starburst pattern.

The wildflowers around my apartment are quickly becoming my favorite microscope muses

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The flowers have started blooming in North Carolina, including this teeny one I’ve seen popping up all over the place.

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A highly magnified image of overlapping pine needles, with fine lines and rows of tiny white dots running along them.

Pine needles are much prettier than I realized

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A close-up microscopic view of a dandelion, showing the individual yellow florets in fine detail. Each floret has a tubular base with delicate, hair-like structures extending outward, creating a dense, feathery texture.

Dandelions: basically tiny, fancy bouquets if you zoom in enough.

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The underside of this little fungus looks like a mini coral, which apparently means it’s toothed?

Found growing on a log in North Carolina.

I’m not sure what it is—any mycologists out there recognize it?

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A close-up view of a decaying flower with bright yellow and orange curled petals. On the right side of the image, a fuzzy white mold with delicate, hair-like filaments spreads across the flower.

When you definitely should have thrown out the bouquet last week… but the fungi got a head start on decomposition.

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Some worm wiggles for your Monday morning

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A little ciliate from a stream near my house.

If you look closely you can see the cilia beating along its body so that it can swim

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The sphagnum moss from our Venus fly trap has some (very brief) Dune-style worm riding by a little mite

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It’s been a while, but they have calibration slides you can use to determine things like minimum-resolvable sizes, but this is super nerdy! I am looking forward to #microscopemondays and what gets imaged!

I want a microscope for Christmas 😍 hooray for #microscopemondays

I asked for a microscope for Christmas so why not share some of what I’ve been looking at? 🧪

Suggestions for future things to image are very welcome

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