Microscope shots: Fruit Flies

[Kyle Barker]

Here are some pics i took of a wingless fruit fly under the microscope. As you can see i have a lot to learn about putting on a cover slip.

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/464fly1-med.jpg
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/464fly2-med.jpg
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/464fly4-med.jpg
http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/464flyleg-med.jpg

Enjoy!

kyle

[ThEmAdHaTtEr]

Lol that is really REALLY wierd. Sweet pics tho, You must have an awesome microscope. Whats up with the second pic? its all squished and stuff.

[fateamber]

eeew that looks so wierd, i hate flies.

[Kyle Barker]

Thanks. its squished because i cant put on cover slips worth ****. They are those little square peices of glass that you out onto you slide. You should have seen the blood come from some of those things!

kyle

[XxRachxX]

hehe! lol! squishy flies!!!!! squishy flies!!! its awesome to see what a squished fly looks like really close!
keep em coming! i think theyre GREAT!! ::big cheesy grin::

[Kyle Barker]

sure thing. But unfortuanatly it looks like i finally wore out my camara. So i have to send it in to be repaired. May be a few weeks.

[Tim and Julie B]

Those are pretty cool! The eyes are weird close up. Hairy little bastards aren't they.

[fateamber]

Cool pics though!

[rattekonigin]

It's not so much that you can't put cover slides on well, it's that anything that's substantially thick will get squished under a cover slide...flies for example, lol

I had a lab this past semester where we couldn't even use coverslips on volvocales (microscopic, multicellular protist-type things) because it would squish them, and they were only a few cells thick, a fly is much thicker...you should try looking at them without a coverslip (dead ones, of course).

[Kyle Barker]

Good point and i tried that out. First problem i had was trying to kill a fly without squishing it. second probem i had was when i looked at it because it is so thick i could only focus on a little ring of the fly, if that makes sense.

kyle

[Lisa]

You might try killing it by capturing and waiting. I know, slow death but there's not much else you can do.

[Linds]

Totally cool shots! :thumbsup:

[Blazin]

What type of setup are you using?

[Emily-Fisher]

Those legs are freaky...but those are some sweet pics!