An Honest Microbe Hunt

[Don Schaeffer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfx4uAt_j5E
I finally braved the real thing, getting a sample of decaying vegetation from the mud puddle and finding the large ciliates. I sweated out the technical demands of the field hunt and came back with a satisfying collection of images. It felt as good to me as someone coming back from a Safari with a leopard pelt.