Looks like a stylaria. Captured this when hunting for #diatoms using my compound microscope. Root sample of a succelunt growing in water was full of these !!

These were very small structures I could see in the sample, but wasn’t sure if they were diatoms.

Roots of a lovely looking succulent seen through the foldscope. I got it from a nursery near my home. They had a bunch of these, growing like lotuses in a large glass bowl.

Watermelon pulp seen through Foldscope. It was stained using iodine before observation.

All you need for a crash course on diatoms🦠 with hands-on labs 🔬.
Found and ordered this amazing book on diatoms! It’s like reading a diatom fairy tale, has tons of pictures !!

Tried a cavity slide (aka depression slide I guess) with Foldscope. Enables capture movements of creatures without harming them. Looks like a Daphnia !

Diatoms at 450x seen using compound microscope. These were extracted and cleaned using the process I documented here #CitizenScience

Very happy to announce that with support and encouragement of Karthick Bala I was able to figure out a simple and safer way of extracting and mounting diatoms for viewing with Foldscope. Detailed post https://ashishware.com/2022/02/12/diatomfoldscope/

Looks like a algae colony captured by my foldscope.

More pics from todays diatom hunt using a foldscope