Microscopic Creatures

One of our customers recently purchased a microscope digital camera adapter for the Panasonic FZ28 camera. The adapter has the equivalent of a 10x eyepiece lens built into it and allows the user to connect a standard point and shoot digital camera to the microscope either through the microscope trinocular port or through a microscope eye tube.

This is a Jaera Albifrons, part of the leach group. This tiny animal (2mm in size) lives in the high tide zone beneath stones.

Jaera Albifrons bearing ten eggs.

All images courtesy of Marianne Ligthart.