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@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social
2025-08-30 13:45:39

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
While algal #blooms are often associated with summer, they can occur in any season. SE #Australia is experiencing a prolonged bloom of Karenia mikimotoi (same genus as Flor…

image/jpeg two microscope images of a golden brown coloured algae cell on the left and a black and white SEM image on the right showing the distinct grooves, one lateral, on vertical where the flagella are located. Images from NOAA and WHOI.

image/jpeg photo of a person on a beach which has extensive piles of brownish white foam.
Photo from ABC Caroline Horn.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-17/waitpinga-beach-foam-investigation/105060888

@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social
2025-08-23 14:00:45

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Last week, I mentioned a ciliate that can cause red tide #blooms. Mesodinium rubrum is an example of a unicellular organism that can both injest food and photosynthesize. Its main prey are cryptomonad

image/jpeg a graphic drawing of Mesodinium rubrum of a round organism with extended spines consuming a Geminigera cryophila cell that has two flagella. Text reads "Steals prey nucleus (kleptokaryon) and other organelles. Final diagram shows organelles inside the cell.
From Johnson et al. 2023.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.01.027

image/jpeg a microscope photograph of an oblong orange - brown cell with distinctive radiating spines from the sides.
Mesodinium rubrum from NOAA, public domain.

@muz4now@mastodon.world
2025-08-09 15:57:04

Our garden
#flowers #blooms #garden

Pink flowers with a rocky party behind them.

Bright orange, yellow, purple, and pink wildflowers.

Tall, yellow flowers with a field in the background.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-19 01:22:16

I've got to get up early tomorrow so I might be posting a little bit less than usual. Here's some Joe Pye weed
#photo #photography #bloomscrolling

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