The eighth chapter of the “Inhabitants of the microworld” series is called “Down-up. Reflections”.
Water surface is a very especial place. It is here where the division between aquatic and aerial worlds are established. A lot of aquatic organisms come here to breathe from the air, as they do the larvae of many insects. An especial characteristic of the water surface is its surface tension. It is this factor that allows many little bugs to walk over the water.
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The seventh chapter of the “Inhabitants of the microworld” series is called “Born in a drop”.
To hatch is the most important moment in the life of any organism, also the microscopic ones. In this chapter of the series we can see the very moment of the hatching of two animals, the chironomid non biting midge and the fresh water snail. A moment reached after a period of embryonic development inside the protective eggshell. From this moment the newborns start their lives in a world plenty of dangers, and only a few will reach the adult stage.
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The sixth chapter of the “Inhabitants of the microworld” series is called “Dancing flatworm”.
Flatworms are a very interesting group of animals pertaining to the zoological phylum Platyhelminthes. These animals can live in both salty or fresh water, and even in the moisture of the woodlands. One of the main characteristics of flatworms is the ability to regenerate its body. They are capable to create again the lost or damaged parts of their body. This ability is directly related to its asexual reproductive strategy, gemmation or budding. This strategy is responsible for the creation of chains of individuals.
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As a measure to make home schooling easier in these days of confinement by COVID-19, they have opened access to many of the documentaries they have described and subtitled as a business.
In this way, many educators and parents of functionally diverse American students can use these documentaries for home schooling simply by registering as DCMP users.
“Termites. The Secret Queens of the Woodlands”, “Life from Light” and the “Hidden Biodiversity” series are now available, with audio description and captions, to many young people in the USA.
If anyone is interested in the subtitled or audio version described in any of the documentaries, please send an email to: contact@scienceintoimages.com asking for them or with your questions.
The fifth chapter of the “Inhabitants of the microworld” series is called “Red midge”.
Larvae of the non-biting flies of the family Chironomidae spend all their development into the water. They use to live near the bottom of ponds where the oxygen uses to be scarce. This is the reason because some of them have adopted haemoglobin (the same molecule we have in our blood) as a respiratory pigment. It is the presence of that pigment into their bodies that gives them their surprising red colour.
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The fourth chapter of the “Inhabitants of the microworld” series is called “Caddisflies”.
Trichoptera, or caddisflies, are insects that spend all their embryonic development into the water. The eggs are protected by a gelatinous mass ensuring the ideal conditions for the development of the larvae. Few time after hatching, the larva of most species begin the construction of their own case. These cases not only protect the soft bodies of the larvae but also make them heavier, so also prevents them for being dragged by the stream.
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The third chapter of the “Inhabitants of the microworld” series is called “Fan fighters”.
Black fly larvae (Simulium sp.) offer an amazing aspect. Their maxillae are transformed in fan-like structures used to catch food particles and tiny organisms from the water which constitute their food. To select the place to stand up and display their fans is a very important task, so disputes and fights for the space are very common. When finishing the metamorphosis, these larvae become black flies that food on blood and can be a serious issue for the people in riverside villages.
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The ICM brings a new initiative that consists of creating a repository of online resources about the ocean for a child audience. These resources are grouped within the “Ocean from Home” project and have contributions from the ICM itself, but also from external sources. And this is where Science into Images comes in.
From Science into Images we have provided this project with the new series “Inhabitants of the Microworld” so that they have more resources to put within reach of children during this time of confinement.
To find out more about this initiative, you can go to our blog FIELD NOTEBOOK by clicking HERE.
The first content of “The Ocean from Home” is called “Marine Microworld”. We leave you the direct link HERE.
The second chapter of the “Inhabitants of the microworld” series is called “Beast and Beauty”.
The reproductive cycle of the common jellyfish (Aurelia aurita) is surprising. At first, polyps appear, terrible predators that capture their small prey with their long, stinging tentacles. As time passes the polyps begin to grow rings and become what is known as strobila. The development of these strobila is one of the reproductive mechanisms of this species: asexual reproduction by budding.
Each polyp is capable of originate new jellyfish without the need for any genetic exchange, in other words, without the intervention of males and females. In the strobila, the ephyrae are formed, one on top of the other, piled up like the dishes in the cupboard, which will become what we could call the “larvae” of the jellyfish.
As the ephyras mature, they are released from the strobila and begin a life of freedom and danger. Those that manage to survive will be able, after several months of development and growth, to become the beautiful adult jellyfish capable of restarting the reproductive cycle of the species. This time it will be by means of sexual reproduction, that is, by the union of sperm and eggs from some individuals acting as males and others acting as females.
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The first chapter of the “Inhabitants of the microworld” series is called “Microbial mats”.
Microbial mats are extraordinary ecosystems apearing where terrestrial and aquatic environments contact, mainly in flat and calm shores of temperate seas. These ecosystems are considered “minimal ecosystems”, basically formed by bacteria and cyanobacteria organized in slim layers depending on their special environmental requirements. Scientists consider microbial mats as the first ecosystems on our planet.
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