syrza's Identifications

ID is a wild guess. Slow and shaky movement. At least two seen and posted separately.

Found in small grassy puddle with exposed soil on a rainy day. I stirred up the dirt before collecting a small vial of water. Only set up one slide moving the cover glass to two separate bits of water.

I know next to nothing about microscopic organisms and only recognized rotifers, maybe a diatom or two and I am assuming the very quick moving things I couldn't photograph were paramecia. I didn't photograph everything that caught my eye, mostly because it was tricky getting everything in focus with my phone and also tracking down the quick-moving organisms. I wasn't super organized about keeping track of magnification but I mostly shot at 100x with a few shots at 400x.

All my microscopy observations from today: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?on=2023-04-10&place_id=any&project_id=microscopy&user_id=joemdo

Microscopy project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/microscopy

Up in landscaped Swietenia mahogani (West Indian Mahogany)

Observed on my bike ride home from a talk I gave about iNat for the Coral Gables Farmer's Market. I ended up stopping several times to check oaks for galls and other insects and climbed a few trees. Did end up hitting a few vacant lots too.

All of my observations from today:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=25.80050630381693&nelng=-80.20035227998537&on=2023-02-11&order=asc&order_by=observed_on&place_id=any&swlat=25.598493368610008&swlng=-80.40085276826662&user_id=joemdo