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Post by felixwillford on Oct 23, 2007 12:48:13 GMT -5
This was just an original size of a black speck found in my bed. It sure looks different under the scope.Kmarie's atenna's
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Post by felixwillford on Oct 23, 2007 13:01:53 GMT -5
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Post by imblownaway on Oct 23, 2007 13:23:58 GMT -5
thats the reason i quit looking at things.
but thats an excellent pic . cute little bugger.!!! artifical life form or can someone id it?
its hard to swallow . but its genetics all mixed up. just like our food and stuff. what else would explain such weirdness? and varieties too.
i gotta take a break ..
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Post by toni on Oct 23, 2007 14:25:47 GMT -5
GREAT pics! It sure looks like some critter was trying to develope. Yesterday I picked out something too shaped like that. Maybe in a pre (that state you have there) as it was all white and globulous but it had the two antenna growing just like that one. The legs on that look long too. You know what that is reminding me of? A collembola developing sort of doesn't it kind of? See it's legs? How they're like "put together" if you know what I mean...they're not onel long thing...they're like pieces put together, not sure what that's called, hahah obviously by my description. www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/compendium/collem.html#looks
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Post by chaosonline on Oct 23, 2007 15:27:47 GMT -5
OK, Here is critter (X60) that came from lilsissy: Here is mine (X200): Antenna contributions courtesy of : Karen from Michigan
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Post by Niels on Oct 23, 2007 15:37:13 GMT -5
thrip?
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Post by felixwillford on Oct 23, 2007 16:20:06 GMT -5
chaos,
that 200x is really good. You must have a good scope. My 200x is hard to get clear.
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Post by Sidney on Oct 23, 2007 17:39:44 GMT -5
Some really good images and thanks. Toni-Sue, critter legs are jointed like ours. Femur, Tibia, blah blah. (If I'm wrong, someone correct me, but that's from memory)
Lots of iridescence in that one photo. Beautiful colors.
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Post by lilsissy on Oct 23, 2007 20:08:17 GMT -5
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Post by felixwillford on Oct 23, 2007 20:17:09 GMT -5
Lilsissy,
yes, your are not kidding when you say "Interesting". It's more than insteresting.
Thank you for the referral.
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Post by rhorn2006 on Apr 19, 2010 11:08:01 GMT -5
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Post by kmarie on Apr 19, 2010 11:43:34 GMT -5
www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/compendium/collem.html#looksPHYSICAL FEATURES: Compound eyes absent or reduced to a cluster of not more than 8 ommatidia Antennae 4- to 6-segmented Abdomen 6-segmented Ventral tube (collophore) present on first abdominal segment Tenaculum located ventrally on third abdominal segment Furcula (springtail) attached ventrally to fourth abdominal segment Genital opening on fifth abdominal segment Body frequently clothed with scales I understood them to have six legs. There are so many variations and not much details can be seen in that picture That black speck, I found on my bed. ( Since then, I wanted to make sure they were not "IN" me and was constantly checking my skin with a hand held microscope and fortunately that black spec on the bed was not from me.) To the naked eye, it looked like a black speck only larger -- enough for me to see it on the bed when I walked by. I have never seen another one again! At the time, I was with my exhusband and he had a mobile home out in the country near the OHIO river. I didn't like it there because of the hot and humid weather. I am glad that I don't see any insects where I am now.
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Post by rhorn2006 on Apr 19, 2010 12:11:44 GMT -5
Yep,,, there are like thousands of species of collembola, and in a few different physical forms as well.. And yes, I am pretty sure they all have "6 legs" as well.. I "assumed" (Yea I know,, I need to quit doing that) the insect in the picture had been squished or deformed,, not completely intact, so that was the reason I said it looked like a collembola.. If that's the way the insect looked "intact",, then I dont have a clue what the darn thing might be...
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Post by kmarie on Apr 19, 2010 12:43:57 GMT -5
Rhorn,
Yes the insect is intact. I see 4 legs. But maybe some can have 4. The attena is shorter than a collembola to me. But I am not expert. THere was a window by my bed that had a garden which when opening the window the garden insect could have flown in.
This THREAD was started in 2007. So I've not see one in nearly 3 years.
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Post by kammy on Apr 19, 2010 12:45:08 GMT -5
That looks like our "dog head, goat-horned" gnat to me, whatever it is - it's got 'horns' in its larval stage... it's either transitioning from larvae to adult or (adult back to larvae as GM organisms in nature now do). Here's the leg of something known - does it match this?: Or, this one?:
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Post by Sidney on Apr 19, 2010 16:39:02 GMT -5
www.collembola.org/Frans Janssens website with excellent images and species descriptions. www.earthlife.net/insects/collembo.htmlThe Order Collembola NOTE ANTENNAE, Body Segments, etc. General Description Small to minute hexapods, often clothed in coloured scales, the antennae have less than 6 segments and the eyes are either simple ocelli or absent, the legs have only four segments the last being the tibiotarsus, they possess no wings. The abdomen possess's only 6 segments, on the first is the ventral tube (an organ for the absorption of moisture, from which the order derives its name [kolla, = glue {in the mistaken belief that the 'peg' was used by the animal to glue itself to smooth surfaces} and embolon, = a peg] ), on the third is the minute retinaculum or hamula which helps to hold the furca in place when it is held under the abdomen, and on the fourth is the 'furca' itself, this is a forked springing organ from which the creature derives its common name of "springtail". They are not now considered to be insects by many authorities but are instead referred to as hexapods, making them a branch of the main stem that insects evolved from, Hexapods includes Collembola, Diplura, Protura and the Insecta which in turn includes the rest of the insect orders, i.e. all insects are hexapods but not all Hexapods are insects.
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Post by Sidney on Apr 19, 2010 17:10:58 GMT -5
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Post by rhorn2006 on Apr 19, 2010 18:15:46 GMT -5
If you want to know about Collembola as a skin parasite, see the NPA's web site. They did a study on 20 patients much more recently.
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Post by bannanny on Apr 19, 2010 19:01:03 GMT -5
Here's a few of mine for comparison. I can't quite remember which ones I got from my bathroom and which ones I got from my body tho. Been a long time since I've seen any, which is a good thing! But if I remember right, I got the one in the first pic off the floor of my tub and the ones that don't look evolved yet from my hair or skin. I'm pretty sure I got this one out of my hair... and I know I got this one off my tub floor as well. Looks like a flying red ant to me all wrapped up in morgs... I'm like you tho Kmarie... I saw alot of critter things in the beginning of morgs but once it really took off they began to diminish to where now I never see them anymore. Course I don't look under a scope anymore either! bug hugs ~~ bannanny
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Post by kammy on Apr 19, 2010 19:26:11 GMT -5
I recognize the first one, second and third one, great photo!.... are probably related, Banny, let me find my photos for comparison. Great thread!
IMO - This is the main 'organism' - of course, there can be several involved but we all have one in common.
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