Beyond the Human Eye

An insight into a microscopic world, invisible to the unaided human eye

Thursday, August 30, 2012

How to Recruit an Army

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Plants primarily secrete nectar as an energy source to tempt pollinators to visit their flowers, but th...
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Millions of Mites

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By the time that summer arrives the foliage of most trees shows signs of insect attack, but these little eruptions on the surface of an...
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Monday, July 16, 2012

Aphids in a Savage Landscape

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When aphids infest plants they tend to find a good spot to feed and then stay in one place, where they'll insert their stylets into t...
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Saturday, June 9, 2012

Aphids

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Aphids , also known as greenfly, are extremely successful sap sucking insects with a phenomenal rate of reproduction, which makes them majo...
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Monday, May 14, 2012

Past its Use-by Date .....

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If you have ever gone away on holiday and forgot that you left some cheese in the cheese dish, then .... ..... this will be a fami...
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Spud-You-Won't-Like......

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Eating green potatoes that have been stored for too long in bright light is a big mistake. They can make you very ill - not becaus...
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Plant Harpoons

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This lethal-looking weapon, just a couple of millimetres long, is the defensive weaponry deployed by a prickly pear cactus called Opunt...
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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Pond Population Explosion

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A combination of unusually warm spring weather and spawning frogs that stirred up the mud and so released a lot of of nutrients into th...
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Friday, March 30, 2012

Within Every Grass Leaf There Are Hidden Smiley Faces .....

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A A vascular bundle in a transverse section of a grass leaf, stained with the fluorochromes Calcofluor M2R (blue fluorescence = cel...
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Friday, February 24, 2012

Seaweed Sexual Reproduction: a chancy business

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