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Speaking of technical, the process is interesting. ( Earnest bladderwort explainer video.)Ĥ.
It's a flowering plant that grows in ponds and lakes all over the world. It's called a humped bladderwort, or Utricularia gibba if you wanna get technical. What's actually happening in the image is also neat: Apparently this is like a microscopic aquatic version of a Venus' flytrap - it sucks little microinvertebrates into its trap a millisecond after they trigger its hairs.ģ.
We get a lot of press releases about photo contests, but this winning image from the Olympus BioScapes Imaging Competition (which I didn't even know existed) stood out for a few reasons:Ģ. Those spiky discs are friendly algae that hitch a ride inside. An image taken with a microscope shows a cross section of the trap of a humped bladderwort ( Utricularia gibba).
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