From freshwater sample taken from Brunette Creek. Apologies for the truly potato quality pictures. 100x magniication; this thing was maybe 1mm long, just visible by the naked eye.
Conidium stained with lactophenol/cotton blue. Retrieved from foam sample.
See 3/30/2019 observation at same location:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21801893
Temperatures to 41F on 01/10 and high 50's with rain on 01/11. Photo taken 01/12 morning.
Unsure of ID but observed in a stagnant water sample from a bird bath. Multiple clusters of specimen throughout sample. 100x magnification.
Another one of those from a nearby pool is recorded at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/22516602 | A video of one in movement is available at https://youtu.be/Ld0Uxx6ThKI
Mag 100x (1), 400x (2-6)
Endosymbiont-filled, freshwater flatworm. See the comments below.
(Initially thought this was a large protozoan like Frontonia such as F. vernalis)
Duplicate of https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/120735310
For the white fruticose lichen.
Balkam Creek. Periphyton collected by scraping a rock that had a brown biofilm.
Balkam Creek. Periphyton collected by scraping a rock that had a green biofilm.
Balkam Creek. Periphyton collected by scraping a rock that had a green biofilm.
Balkam Creek. Periphyton collected by scraping a rock that had a brown biofilm.