#microscopic

[kafkasapartment]

“Chironomid larvae are opportunistic omnivores (they can eat pretty much anything that can be eaten) but they are also classified by their main feeding modes; collector-gatherers, collector-filterers, scrapers, shredders, engulfers and piercers. Of course, one species can fit in multiple feeding strategies!

These larvae play an important role in aquatic ecosystems since they're a major food source for fish, frogs, birds and semi-aquatic mammals. They also are litter decomposers, rock cleaners and are important for nutrient recycling. Chironomid larvae are also very sensitive to polluants such as pesticides and are thus used as bio indicators of freshwater quality!”

[nemfrog]

Plate XVI. Microscopic algae. Desmids of the United States. Francis Wolle. 1884.

Internet Archive

[samimarkart]

found this abandoned quilt top while cleaning and had to finish it up finally. screen printed and sewn last semester and finally quilted and bound yesterday. using holographic foils to emulate the glassy appearance of diatoms under the microscope, i sewed a log cabin pattern as a playful nod to the idea that diatoms live in tiny glass houses.

Glass Cabin, 2023, 40x42in, pieced cotton with textile foil screenprints, polyester batting, gifted fabric backing

[thefoilguy]

Tardigrade - Aluminum Foil Sculpture

[snailspng]

Microscopic seed and pollen PNGs, part 1.

(1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.)

[squishsquishy]

>> cosmodernism

[itamiraika]

This is the first time I'm going to post here, since I've never had Tumblr before, I don't really know how it works but I did some research.

My main or native language is not English, I know a little of it so I will be posting in both languages.

Es la primera vez que voy a publicar por acá, ya que nunca he tenido tumblr, no se muy bien como funciona pero investigue un poco.

Mi idioma principal o nativo no es el inglés, se un poco de este así que estare publicando en ambos idiomas.

Es un Tardígrado que hice, secundario a otro que ya había hecho con camiseta del oxxo.

A Tardigrade I made, secondary to another one I had already made with an Oxxo t-shirt.