Beyond the Human Eye

This is a transverse section of the conceptacle of a brown seaweed Fucus sp., commonly known as saw wrack. It has been stai...

Three weeks of warm weather had left my pond covered with large slimy masses of 'blanket weed' or 'pond scum', the filament...

This colony of organisms is Synura , a member of the Golden or Chrysophyte algae, that I found in a water sample in the shallows of a reed...

Ditches can be surprisingly interesting, on a microscopic scale. This diatom and filament of Spirogyra came from a ditch beside a disused r...