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Insects and mites
	Super-resistant hair lice are not too good at walking on hard surfaces.	Lice resources on Microscopy-UK	Mol Smith, UK
	Head lice can stray to other regions of the body.	see link above	Mol Smith, UK
	Body lice also known as clothes lice.	see link above	Mol Smith, UK
	Mature body louse filled with blood.	see link above	Mol Smith, UK
	View of head louse close-up from beneath.	see link above	Mol Smith, UK
	Close-up of dustmite.	Dustmites - a tale of love and passion between the sheets	Mol Smith, UK
Note to parents/teachers: a movie clip from an adult perspective.	Body lice in pubic region.	Licewars! Note to parents/teachers: this illustrated article discusses an important topic from an adult perspective.	Mol Smith, UK
	View of head louse moving along hair shaft.	see link above	Mol Smith, UK
	View of head louse moving up and down hair shaft.	see link above	Mol Smith, UK

Aquatic life

Pond life
	See a beautiful, almost graceful freshwater bryozoa called Plumatella.	Pond fairies. The freshwater bryozoa, Plumatella repens. Video microscopy. My own system.	Ken Jones, UK
	Now look at the Plumatella ciliated tentacles close-up!	see link above	Ken Jones, UK
	See another movie of Plumatella.	see link above	Ken Jones, UK
	See another movie of Plumatella.	see link above	Ken Jones, UK
	Like a sphere spinning in space, see Volvox spin on our pages!	Volvox - the jewel of the pond.	Ken Jones, UK
	See a rotifer attacking a Volvox colony.	see link above	Ken Jones, UK
	A truly amazing creature: Lacrymaria olor - 'Tear of a Swan'!	'Tear of a swan'. Lacrymaria olor the 'giraffe' of the protozoan world! A microscopic 'Loch Ness monster', Lacrymaria olor	Richard Howey, US
	The whirling wheel-like cilia of the rotifer!	Jaws! A Micscape Wonder Article the beautiful and awesome features of a rotifer captured on video.	Ken Jones, UK Mol Smith, UK
Media Player wmv format mpeg format	Water bear Milnesium tardigradum; one of the finest video clips on the web of water bears!	Thrilling water bears	Martin Mach, Germany
Media Player wmv format.	Young water bear Echiniscus testudo; dark-field illumination.	Thrilling water bears	Martin Mach, Germany
Media Player wmv format.	Water bear Echniscus mediantus, dark-field illumination.	Water bear: a living sweet?	Martin Mach, Germany
Click gallery link right. Clips in 'mov' format, Quicktime player needed.	NEW Three video clips and stills of a hydra. Showing typical expansion/contraction tentacle movement etc.	Video gallery: Hydra	Donald Ferry, USA
Marine life
	The amazing pedicellaria or 'three jawed forceps' of a sea urchin.	Sea urchin, a stinging but amazing animal	Jean-Marie Cavanihac, France

Other
	Marine salt crystallising (time-lapse sequence)	Time-lapse gallery	Jean-Marie Cavanihac, France

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