No clickbait, no phony suspense builds about nothing. Just purely a man and his fascination with our planet and the tiniest yet most beautiful parts of it. You got a sub good sir
@@tbh.7204 Science is very complex and I find it hard to believe that it just "popped" out of nothing. A Creator must've created all this, therefore, I find God very beautiful.
You can treat Lyme. The people that suffer the worst from it are the people who do not stay on alert after finding they had been bitten by a tick. In essence, if you are aware of the threat of Lyme disease, you're probably fine. An additional tidbit is that you have to really let the tick suck from you for a while in order to even be at risk for Lyme. If ticks were actually so dangerous that finding one is "risking your life" we would hear a lot more about them. I've found more than 3 on me at once during camping trips, and none had even dug in yet. Just make sure you take a good thorough look at yourself, shower and scrub well whenever you have exposure.
Amazing. Kind of gross but fascinating. I've never seen any video or footage of the inside of a critter like that with such a high definition. You gotta do more videos like this!
Excellent images, you are an inspiration. I was bitten by a tick, I had to operate on the wound myself twice as there were retained mouth parts, the wound took 9 months to heal because the saliva contains anti-angiogenesis factors, stay safe.
Love that this man took the "glass half full" approach to his explanation on why this dangerous parasite does actually present some type of value, even if it is indirectly. Smart human. Subscribed.
Hey thanks for the amazing video. Even something as annoying as a tick can be fascinating to learn about. I really appreciate your positive attitude and approach. Keep making these videos.
I did this once only I did not use mounting medium. Instead I glued the cover slide down while the tic was still alive. When not in use I placed the slide in the refrigerator. The tic survived for more than a week. It was pretty amazing to watch the heart or vessels pumping and then to see microscopic features.
Respect all living things, and those things that enable it. A man with a conscience. That was great, my wife was asking me to do that, lets look at a Tick. Thank you, I am going to look at one soon enough. Cheers!
Ticks cause so many problems, but I felt sorry for the little creature when I saw his organs still moving. I like your summary at the end - even the humble mosquito plays it's part by making a lot of the rainforest inhospitable for human habitation.
@@hamburgerfatso if you look very closely at the end of its legs it seems to have tiny hands with fingers, I don't know what they actually are or what they're specifically called but it does resemble human hands and extending fingers
My trick with the tics is squeeze them with your fingers, (dont do that with mini ticks and ticks who have already a big bag). The small ticks won't break but they stop moving for a few seconds. I found this out when I removed them from my dogs, and wanted to put them in a bottle they kept hold of my finger or grabs the side of the bottle but after squeezing they stop grabbing and easy to drop them. After 5 seconds they walk again. The ticks I am talking about are about 2 mm in size. They do have a shield on their body/head. The smaller (babys) are 0.2mm and they splatter in blood so becarefull handle them, and the mommys reaching 9mm, well... use a tissue and clean touched areas with alcohol afterwards.
So I was at school one day (few months ago) I was running my fingers through my hair, then I felt a bump! I took my pencil to see if it was just my scalp, then I picked it out and it was a TICK!!!! I through it on the floor ;)
i was watching a tick crawl around today and i got to this video looking to see how their feet look, so was sad to see that in your photo they're completely washed out. but I really liked seeing the internal organs
Fortunately, except for HPV, all of the above diseases can be screened for using blood or urine testing. That said, it may take several months to be certain that your results are reliable as it takes that long for the body to form the antibodies that the tests detect. Sometimes a client will come in and not have a clear idea of what he wants. In that case, the girls on duty will get in a line-up and let the c...
I used to keep ferrets as pets and they often would pick up ticks when I took them for walks in woodland, I would rather see these parasites on a microscope slide rather than trying to detach them from the skin of my pets.
@Rap Lawyer I did remove them it was difficult though because if you leave mouth parts embedded in the animals skin they can cause severe infection. The little b*st*rds cling as tenaciously as those face-hugger things out of the Alien movie.
@@pmc614 You may be thinking of crabs, ticks are about the same size as a baked bean and get bigger as they fill with blood. The two mandibles either side of the mouth-parts hook into your skin and are really difficult to detach. If you pull hard enough the head will break off leaving the mandibles still embedded under skin which then can get infected.
Wow it was very interesting to see the actual organs of this tick moving, very unexpected, i might have to put one under my microscope if i find one! great video, love ur channel
Hi, thanks for your videos. I've been curious to buy a microscope for some time and your microscope buying information is very helpful and your enthusiasm infectious!
I hate ticks. This video was really neat and fun to watch. You made some valid points at the end. Although I don't think it negates what you said in the start. We don't really have a use for ticks. Other things however, do. Thanks for making these videos. I've always been really interested in microscopy, but I've never had the funds to invest in a nice microscope. Maybe one day. Until then, I can just watch UA-cam.
Easy way to find ticks: Drag a white sheet across a couple of square meters of low vegetation like wild grass or any forest floor. The ticks sit around with their front limbs raised up, waiting for something to brush against them, which will automatically drag them along. Easiest way to avoid ticks when hiking or whatever is to seal the opening around your ankles. Pull your socks over your pants or get tick protectors from outdoor stores. Wear light colored pants that'll easily show any ticks crawling on them. A dustpan broom is great for brushing your clothing and skin, so it's good to bring one along when camping or hiking. If you're checking yourself, use a mirror to check hard to see places. Don't forget to check between your butt cheeks. If you have a partner with you, check each other thoroughly. Better safe and awkward than infected with Lyme's disease or Borrealia.
GTchara Animations how to not get a tick: Put your dog of flea and tick prevention (just like you don’t want one on yourself, your dog shouldn’t be suffering from them either)
paylin my dog is a magnet for ticks. Basically every week or so he manages to catch some and we have to treat him and he hates it. Its not always possible trust me man
Even with prevention and vaccination, ticks are walking on them. They just won't develop on them. Go check their paws after a walk in the forrest. Sure there are some on there and their cheeks. The problem is, the ticks will fall off and that can happen inside your home.. imagine them crawling on your sofa looking for another host... you? (and yes, I have found some on my legs after my dogs sat with my feets.)
@@imgertberg5344 so it never happened that one crawled on me because I'm quite careful to keep them away and my dog rests under a wooden structure outside my house but once somehow one managed to sneak inside my A3 paper folder and i brought it to school. It snuck out during the programming class and half of my class was unaware but me and my friend in the immediate vicinity started to hammer it out with different objects and things went from calm to confusion and then panic because the little bugger wouldn't die and my classmates were borderline insectophobic (i dunno if this word exists). During all of this the professor was like "wtf are you up to". Wierd experience.
@@alessandrodonadi1368 Is he long or short haired and where do you bring him often? I usually let my dog sleep with me on bed but I rather not risk a tick lol, it kinda scared me.
Hello, I appreciate this video. Well done and quite informative. I have a question...what would happen if parasites ceased to exist? How would that affect the planet? Would benefits of parasite extinction outweigh negatives? Thank you!
I was lucky to have stumbled on this channel. I am thinking of getting a microscope and these videos have been a nice primer on what I might be able to do with it. Beyond that I like the host. As to this particular video: I have wondered how well a microscope might do with larger subjects that might be better viewed with a stereo microscope. I thought it did pretty well. I thought it was useful for a novice to find out how subjects like a tick might be prepared for viewing. I would like to have seen the host try to get a more detailed image of the sucking mouth parts of the tick.
Hello and thank you for the nice feedback. I did check the mouth part and it was not moving under the microscope. I think that it could be that the mouth part does not actually move and that the gut creates the vacuum that sucks in the blood. The tick was indeed a difficult subject, as it is quite dark. When viewed under the stereo microscope, then you can only see the outside part of the tick and not inside. I had to turn up the light quite much to shine it through the tick.
Sir u r amazing.....u look really intelligent......u r an inspiration for me like students ......I have a self microscope......I m just 13....very sincere on studying microscopy.....pls.....do videos like this insect types......it helps me and people a lot
@Odysseyvoyager And where the fuck are you from? Because clearly you are not from a civilised society where you would have been taught to respect fellow human beings, instead of spreading meaningless hatred
Excellent video! it would be very interesting if you could do some research on how it bits and perhaps do a close up of the mouth, I am sure national geographics will purchase the footage from you
I have a question relating to Stereo Microscopes vs. Compound Microscopes. From what I have researched so far, people continue to say that you cannot/should not use a compound microscope for looking at things like insects, plants, etc. This video oddly confuses me now, can someone please help me understand this better? I am currently trying to decide whether I should get a Stereo or Compound Microscope. I love both, so it's a hard pick, but I am leaning more towards Compound. Thanks.
You might have luck wrapping your legs in packing tape sticky side out. They will get stuck and you can just trim the tape down around them. It'll also keep them from getting to your skin.
WOW man great video thank you so much ,,,I live in Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 i never seen a tick until I was 41 and had no clue what I was looking at it was attached to my side I pulled it off an went to the doctor and I removed it properly getting the head and everything fortunately I did not contract any illnesses or suffer any effects afterwards but it was scary as hell had no clue what it was I pulled off my side but great video brother
Hi, do you have any tips on how to produce a home made sticky mounting medium as you used? I don't have acess to mounting mediums here... I was wondering if I could use something like honey, but I don't know if the refraction index will be a problem.
Not honey, but fructose syrup (which is essentially also a high sugar concentration, like honey). This one has been used before. It stays liquid, but you can seal the edges of the cover glass with nail polish. Clear nail polish also works (both as a mounting medium as well as for sealing), but it shrinks a lot. Allow some solvent to evaporate first to thicken it. Or pure glycerine (stays liquid), seal the cover glass again on the edges, but make sure that no glycerine comes in contact with the edges, otherwise the nail polish will not stick. Or the classic: glycerine jelly (difficult to use, as it needs to be applied warm but is not allowed to overheat). For amateur use, forget about the refractive index. This one will only be relevant for highly specific cases. This webpage is highly (!) useful: www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjun04/wdmtmedia.html
But your instructions are for a "permanent" slide since you're suggesting of using nail polish to seal? I'm not interested in making a permanent slide, but reather just have a sticky mounting medium just to make easier to observe live mini insects, like tiny ants.
In this case you need a very viscous liquid. Some people have used glycerol (glycerine) for this. You can adjust the viscosity of glycerine by adding water. Maybe it is also possible to use oil (vedgtable oil etc), or immersion oil. But I did not try oil yet. To slow down water organisms glycerine is probably better as it is compatible with water.
It's ok, ticks are one of the few things that can be discarded, like mosquitos, lawyers (:P) and other blood sucking monsters. I wish you focused on their mouth parts, that would have been cool, but this was an amazing video!
You might look for citizen science projects. Possible ideas are: pollen analysis (against allergies) or the study of micro plastics in water. Documentation of various insects, (bodiversity) or water organisms. You could take pictures of various microorganisms and then improve Wikipedia articles with them. Microscopic art competition: www.nikonsmallworld.com/
I think I read somewhere that these things can survive without oxygen for several hours or perhaps even longer, so if that's true it's not surprising at all that it kept moving for so long...
I have had 20 deer ticks on me in under 2 hours, most of them nymphs... really really tiny and black, Ive been bitten over 30 times a year by both deer ticks (smaller than commin dog ticks adults are red-ish) and common brown dog ticks... lucky so far, no lymes.
what tick eating insects and animals we can encourage to colonize our lawns?, also how to help them survive the pesticide and herbicide filled environment we created.
Considering this little fella is an insect, would it be stupid to suggest that those vessels that are pulsating might be tracheoles? After all, insects do have air sac's which allow them to aerobically respire even when they are unable to get oxygen - which is why he survived for so long.
Please do the wing of a dragonfly compared to the wing of a housefly. Cones on dragonfly wings? Can you explain this? Thank you for your knowledge. 🇺🇸🌹 upstate New York
It's been put in the mounting medium, which is essentially glue. Imagine suffocating in thick, clear and sticky water, while being blinded by a bright white light so bright you can see your organs through it. That's a pretty harsh way to go
@@minihali meh i'm still not satisfied. Must involve fire, but a magnifying glass + the sun would work too and would also be easier to view with a microscope.
Insects and smaller organisms like them cant really be considered intelligent enough to feel torture and existential pain from suffocation. It may be possible they experience very primordial emotions like a desire to eat in the same way a plant might be able to experience hapiness/enjoyment from a nice sunny day. Most living things even bacteria and cells are probably capable of some rudimentary instinct and emotion to the most basic degree, these arent really enough to signify a truely sentient organism capable of self observation. ticks, ants, spiders, ect, are alive and they may feel some instinctual drives like panic, however they have no concept of self, no concept of death, and no brain structure that enables any mamilian sense of empathy or sentience. They are more or less biological AI driven by the "programming" that is millions of years of genetic instinct. which is probably a good thing for the insects considering ants would have an existential crisis if they ever had the ability to contemplate how insignificant they are. Not that we dont have that problem either i guess #biologicalwhydoweexistproblems
No clickbait, no phony suspense builds about nothing. Just purely a man and his fascination with our planet and the tiniest yet most beautiful parts of it. You got a sub good sir
What's beautiful about a tick?
@@a.s.7936 I find the beauty in the science itself. Tick can go fuck itself tho
@@tbh.7204 Science is very complex and I find it hard to believe that it just "popped" out of nothing. A Creator must've created all this, therefore, I find God very beautiful.
@@a.s.7936 congratulations you slaughtered the thread
@@breadenjoyer4524 Nice.
6:47 that's a sign of a true scientist. Not the one that is ignorant and believes he's always right.
thank you for elaborating that ticks as living beings are also worthy of our respect.
I am not going to risk my life hunting for a tick. Lyme Disease is just scary.
I hear lygma is even worse
@@thebabscast5154 Ligma is no joke.
yeah, if you catch lygma it's basically impossible to recover
@@zualapips1638 whats ligma
You can treat Lyme. The people that suffer the worst from it are the people who do not stay on alert after finding they had been bitten by a tick.
In essence, if you are aware of the threat of Lyme disease, you're probably fine.
An additional tidbit is that you have to really let the tick suck from you for a while in order to even be at risk for Lyme. If ticks were actually so dangerous that finding one is "risking your life" we would hear a lot more about them. I've found more than 3 on me at once during camping trips, and none had even dug in yet. Just make sure you take a good thorough look at yourself, shower and scrub well whenever you have exposure.
I never thought you could see the inside of insects in motion as they work. Mind blowing!...ticks are nasty creatures but equally fascinating.
Enjoyed the philosophical elements at the end of the video.
Amazing. Kind of gross but fascinating. I've never seen any video or footage of the inside of a critter like that with such a high definition. You gotta do more videos like this!
Pretty fascinating yet disgusting at the same time lol.
This has GOT to be one of the coolest things I've ever seen under a microscope. Dang!!
I had to subscribe immediately when you switched to dark field microscopy. That image looks absolutely stunning!!
You're a genius
Excellent images, you are an inspiration. I was bitten by a tick, I had to operate on the wound myself twice as there were retained mouth parts, the wound took 9 months to heal because the saliva contains anti-angiogenesis factors, stay safe.
I've had so many ticks and have been lucky to not get any problems from them. Horrible little critters!
wow!!! didnt realize a microscope can show a "tic" in such interesting detail....im so impressed. gosh...microscopy is absolutely fascinating.
Your respect for life is very admirable. I commemorate you for that.
Love that this man took the "glass half full" approach to his explanation on why this dangerous parasite does actually present some type of value, even if it is indirectly. Smart human. Subscribed.
Yeah. They're good food for birds, and without birds, humans themselves too would be without a good food source
Wonderful conclusion. Thank you for the education.
Hey thanks for the amazing video. Even something as annoying as a tick can be fascinating to learn about. I really appreciate your positive attitude and approach. Keep making these videos.
what microscope would you recommend for someone who wants to do some microscope work but doesn't have lots of moeny to spend?
What's the max of money you would give out?
@@underthemicroscope4840 20 billion
Chloroplast ✔ 30 billion take it or leave it
@@tappyVQ ill take it, *But* only with a 7 trillion dollar addition
Chloroplast ✔ deal
Great way to see how they really tick.
Not many people come back on their viewing points. Kudos. True scientist!
wow. just jaw dropped. awesome, never seen a tick this up close and magnified. thank you so much for this very informative video.
I did this once only I did not use mounting medium. Instead I glued the cover slide down while the tic was still alive. When not in use I placed the slide in the refrigerator. The tic survived for more than a week. It was pretty amazing to watch the heart or vessels pumping and then to see microscopic features.
could they be the tracheoles that are pulsating?
Respect all living things, and those things that enable it. A man with a conscience. That was great, my wife was asking me to do that, lets look at a Tick. Thank you, I am going to look at one soon enough. Cheers!
Ticks cause so many problems, but I felt sorry for the little creature when I saw his organs still moving. I like your summary at the end - even the humble mosquito plays it's part by making a lot of the rainforest inhospitable for human habitation.
6:33, it has little human hands lol
BOI x8
I dont get it, where?
@@hamburgerfatso if you look very closely at the end of its legs it seems to have tiny hands with fingers, I don't know what they actually are or what they're specifically called but it does resemble human hands and extending fingers
@@jakobengelmann1262 I think it's 'fingers' are just hairs :P
Your videos are Very informative and....AWESOME !!!!!!
Awesome video! Very good detail on that specimen. I have always found the microscopic world to be fascinating.
My trick with the tics is squeeze them with your fingers, (dont do that with mini ticks and ticks who have already a big bag).
The small ticks won't break but they stop moving for a few seconds.
I found this out when I removed them from my dogs, and wanted to put them in a bottle they kept hold of my finger or grabs the side of the bottle but after squeezing they stop grabbing and easy to drop them. After 5 seconds they walk again.
The ticks I am talking about are about 2 mm in size. They do have a shield on their body/head.
The smaller (babys) are 0.2mm and they splatter in blood so becarefull handle them, and the mommys reaching 9mm, well... use a tissue and clean touched areas with alcohol afterwards.
So I was at school one day (few months ago) I was running my fingers through my hair, then I felt a bump! I took my pencil to see if it was just my scalp, then I picked it out and it was a TICK!!!! I through it on the floor ;)
i was watching a tick crawl around today and i got to this video looking to see how their feet look, so was sad to see that in your photo they're completely washed out. but I really liked seeing the internal organs
Thank you so much im learning much about our tiny microuniverse and about microscopes w your descriptive videos.
Well said at the end
Cool! Thank you for the step-by-step process
Fortunately, except for HPV, all of the above diseases can be screened for using blood or urine testing. That said, it may take several months to be certain that your results are reliable as it takes that long for the body to form the antibodies that the tests detect.
Sometimes a client will come in and not have a clear idea of what he wants. In that case, the girls on duty will get in a line-up and let the c...
The dark field on the tick looks amazing
Glad UA-cam Recommendations sent me here. New sub, enjoyed a couple of your videos so far and looking forward to your next ones.
I used to keep ferrets as pets and they often would pick up ticks when I took them for walks in woodland, I would rather see these parasites on a microscope slide rather than trying to detach them from the skin of my pets.
@Rap Lawyer I did remove them it was difficult though because if you leave mouth parts embedded in the animals skin they can cause severe infection. The little b*st*rds cling as tenaciously as those face-hugger things out of the Alien movie.
@@LeeRaldar I remember I had a few on my back and pubes.
@@pmc614 @ Ferrets or ticks?
@@LeeRaldar ticks
@@pmc614 You may be thinking of crabs, ticks are about the same size as a baked bean and get bigger as they fill with blood. The two mandibles either side of the mouth-parts hook into your skin and are really difficult to detach. If you pull hard enough the head will break off leaving the mandibles still embedded under skin which then can get infected.
very good way to wrap up the video 😊
I'm feeling itchy all over!
Wow it was very interesting to see the actual organs of this tick moving, very unexpected, i might have to put one under my microscope if i find one! great video, love ur channel
you are a very nice guy. thanks for these videos.
Hi, thanks for your videos. I've been curious to buy a microscope for some time and your microscope buying information is very helpful and your enthusiasm infectious!
I hate ticks. This video was really neat and fun to watch. You made some valid points at the end. Although I don't think it negates what you said in the start. We don't really have a use for ticks. Other things however, do.
Thanks for making these videos. I've always been really interested in microscopy, but I've never had the funds to invest in a nice microscope. Maybe one day. Until then, I can just watch UA-cam.
Fantastic video! Thanks and best wishes going onward ! Subbed !
nightmare fuel
incredibly good shot, perfect definition and textures, great video
He seems like a great guy
Easy way to find ticks:
Drag a white sheet across a couple of square meters of low vegetation like wild grass or any forest floor. The ticks sit around with their front limbs raised up, waiting for something to brush against them, which will automatically drag them along.
Easiest way to avoid ticks when hiking or whatever is to seal the opening around your ankles. Pull your socks over your pants or get tick protectors from outdoor stores. Wear light colored pants that'll easily show any ticks crawling on them. A dustpan broom is great for brushing your clothing and skin, so it's good to bring one along when camping or hiking. If you're checking yourself, use a mirror to check hard to see places. Don't forget to check between your butt cheeks. If you have a partner with you, check each other thoroughly.
Better safe and awkward than infected with Lyme's disease or Borrealia.
Thank you for the advice!
2 videos in row. I am subscriber 😎
Hey, what magnifications were you viewing the tick at in these shots? Very cool footage! Thanks for sharing.
Fascinating!
yeah!
Fascinating. Clap clap awesome
Oh nice videos sir, I hope you keep doing this cause... it's really cool to see an unexplored world! im really loving
your videos so far :-)
Deserved the like after that nice conclusion :)
Amazing! Love it! Can't stand ticks, but this was great.
Good job dude
amazing video, thanks Microbehunter :)
Now we can see what makes it tick.
i had 5 of those buggers on the back of my knee, they sucked.. :) ba dum tisss
What exactly do ticks do that makes them useful?
Great thought at the end. Every organism has its value and function / purpose else it would not have survived evolution
An interesting video to look up about Ticks is the Haller's Organ. Just search for 'Tick Haller's Organ'
How to get a tick:
Get it from your dog
GTchara Animations
how to not get a tick:
Put your dog of flea and tick prevention (just like you don’t want one on yourself, your dog shouldn’t be suffering from them either)
paylin my dog is a magnet for ticks. Basically every week or so he manages to catch some and we have to treat him and he hates it. Its not always possible trust me man
Even with prevention and vaccination, ticks are walking on them. They just won't develop on them.
Go check their paws after a walk in the forrest. Sure there are some on there and their cheeks.
The problem is, the ticks will fall off and that can happen inside your home.. imagine them crawling on your sofa looking for another host... you?
(and yes, I have found some on my legs after my dogs sat with my feets.)
@@imgertberg5344 so it never happened that one crawled on me because I'm quite careful to keep them away and my dog rests under a wooden structure outside my house but once somehow one managed to sneak inside my A3 paper folder and i brought it to school. It snuck out during the programming class and half of my class was unaware but me and my friend in the immediate vicinity started to hammer it out with different objects and things went from calm to confusion and then panic because the little bugger wouldn't die and my classmates were borderline insectophobic (i dunno if this word exists). During all of this the professor was like "wtf are you up to". Wierd experience.
@@alessandrodonadi1368 Is he long or short haired and where do you bring him often? I usually let my dog sleep with me on bed but I rather not risk a tick lol, it kinda scared me.
thank you
Very very cool!!!
Now SQUISH IT
No vro I love him
Haziel Soberal Oh no vro
@@thatnikkakris2339 oh yes vro
Good luck they are hard to kill best way is to burn it
T-rex Gamer101 ssshhhh just play along
I came here from the future and I find it fascinating that you carry the pledge for ticks.
Hello, I appreciate this video. Well done and quite informative. I have a question...what would happen if parasites ceased to exist? How would that affect the planet? Would benefits of parasite extinction outweigh negatives? Thank you!
I was lucky to have stumbled on this channel. I am thinking of getting a microscope and these videos have been a nice primer on what I might be able to do with it. Beyond that I like the host. As to this particular video: I have wondered how well a microscope might do with larger subjects that might be better viewed with a stereo microscope. I thought it did pretty well. I thought it was useful for a novice to find out how subjects like a tick might be prepared for viewing. I would like to have seen the host try to get a more detailed image of the sucking mouth parts of the tick.
Hello and thank you for the nice feedback. I did check the mouth part and it was not moving under the microscope. I think that it could be that the mouth part does not actually move and that the gut creates the vacuum that sucks in the blood. The tick was indeed a difficult subject, as it is quite dark. When viewed under the stereo microscope, then you can only see the outside part of the tick and not inside. I had to turn up the light quite much to shine it through the tick.
And: you might also want to visit the website and the forum if you want to get more information on microscopes: www.microbehunter.com
i have also read about the kissing bug, bed bug, hypoderma bovis fly
Sir u r amazing.....u look really intelligent......u r an inspiration for me like students ......I have a self microscope......I m just 13....very sincere on studying microscopy.....pls.....do videos like this insect types......it helps me and people a lot
So.....many.....periods......
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@@chairwood what are u telling about ?
@Odysseyvoyager And where the fuck are you from? Because clearly you are not from a civilised society where you would have been taught to respect fellow human beings, instead of spreading meaningless hatred
@Odysseyvoyager What a big man you are, talking that way to a child. I hope you get cancer one day, before there's a cure too.
Excellent video! it would be very interesting if you could do some research on how it bits and perhaps do a close up of the mouth, I am sure national geographics will purchase the footage from you
super video! thanks!
nice one homie
Cool 😀 HaShem created the world and everything in it.
I have a question relating to Stereo Microscopes vs. Compound Microscopes. From what I have researched so far, people continue to say that you cannot/should not use a compound microscope for looking at things like insects, plants, etc. This video oddly confuses me now, can someone please help me understand this better? I am currently trying to decide whether I should get a Stereo or Compound Microscope. I love both, so it's a hard pick, but I am leaning more towards Compound. Thanks.
Thumbs up for the nuance at the end. It’s a quality that is dying out I fear.
You might have luck wrapping your legs in packing tape sticky side out. They will get stuck and you can just trim the tape down around them. It'll also keep them from getting to your skin.
WOW man great video thank you so much ,,,I live in Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 i never seen a tick until I was 41 and had no clue what I was looking at it was attached to my side I pulled it off an went to the doctor and I removed it properly getting the head and everything fortunately I did not contract any illnesses or suffer any effects afterwards but it was scary as hell had no clue what it was I pulled off my side but great video brother
What is the magnification strength used for this project?
Ticks are large. Mostly low magnification up to 100x
Hi, do you have any tips on how to produce a home made sticky mounting medium as you used? I don't have acess to mounting mediums here... I was wondering if I could use something like honey, but I don't know if the refraction index will be a problem.
Not honey, but fructose syrup (which is essentially also a high sugar concentration, like honey). This one has been used before. It stays liquid, but you can seal the edges of the cover glass with nail polish. Clear nail polish also works (both as a mounting medium as well as for sealing), but it shrinks a lot. Allow some solvent to evaporate first to thicken it. Or pure glycerine (stays liquid), seal the cover glass again on the edges, but make sure that no glycerine comes in contact with the edges, otherwise the nail polish will not stick. Or the classic: glycerine jelly (difficult to use, as it needs to be applied warm but is not allowed to overheat). For amateur use, forget about the refractive index. This one will only be relevant for highly specific cases. This webpage is highly (!) useful: www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag.html?www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjun04/wdmtmedia.html
But your instructions are for a "permanent" slide since you're suggesting of using nail polish to seal? I'm not interested in making a permanent slide, but reather just have a sticky mounting medium just to make easier to observe live mini insects, like tiny ants.
In this case you need a very viscous liquid. Some people have used glycerol (glycerine) for this. You can adjust the viscosity of glycerine by adding water. Maybe it is also possible to use oil (vedgtable oil etc), or immersion oil. But I did not try oil yet. To slow down water organisms glycerine is probably better as it is compatible with water.
vedgtable? lol
It's ok, ticks are one of the few things that can be discarded, like mosquitos, lawyers (:P) and other blood sucking monsters.
I wish you focused on their mouth parts, that would have been cool, but this was an amazing video!
This video reminds me of that Brad Paisley song "I'd like to check you for ticks." So romantic!
I think you should get rid of the jingle at 1:10
Hello, can you try fleas specimen (dead)?
I have been thinking of buying a microscope to do this. Are there any projects I could do that might be valuable? How can I find good projects?
You might look for citizen science projects. Possible ideas are: pollen analysis (against allergies) or the study of micro plastics in water. Documentation of various insects, (bodiversity) or water organisms. You could take pictures of various microorganisms and then improve Wikipedia articles with them. Microscopic art competition: www.nikonsmallworld.com/
I think I read somewhere that these things can survive without oxygen for several hours or perhaps even longer, so if that's true it's not surprising at all that it kept moving for so long...
I have had 20 deer ticks on me in under 2 hours, most of them nymphs... really really tiny and black, Ive been bitten over 30 times a year by both deer ticks (smaller than commin dog ticks adults are red-ish) and common brown dog ticks... lucky so far, no lymes.
what tick eating insects and animals we can encourage to colonize our lawns?, also how to help them survive the pesticide and herbicide filled environment we created.
Actually possums eat ticks
I think I’m the only one who felt bad for the tick dying, and being helpless lol
However, then I remember that they ruin so many lives
Considering this little fella is an insect, would it be stupid to suggest that those vessels that are pulsating might be tracheoles? After all, insects do have air sac's which allow them to aerobically respire even when they are unable to get oxygen - which is why he survived for so long.
Is it drinking mounting fluid?????
WOAH! now thats cool.
I have been bitten this summer and i were Lyme disease positive i were battling it 30 days while cure i had rash
This is fucking amazing.
What is an ear bubble? :))
WHAT. It's Oliver Rakontas, is it not? My mind is blown.
Please do the wing of a dragonfly compared to the wing of a housefly. Cones on dragonfly wings? Can you explain this? Thank you for your knowledge. 🇺🇸🌹 upstate New York
now please show the tick experiencing the pain of sadistic torture
It's been put in the mounting medium, which is essentially glue. Imagine suffocating in thick, clear and sticky water, while being blinded by a bright white light so bright you can see your organs through it. That's a pretty harsh way to go
@@minihali he wants the tick to be stabbed
@@willywanker2376 And let it die faster? nah dude, that would be too merciful
@@minihali meh i'm still not satisfied. Must involve fire, but a magnifying glass + the sun would work too and would also be easier to view with a microscope.
Insects and smaller organisms like them cant really be considered intelligent enough to feel torture and existential pain from suffocation. It may be possible they experience very primordial emotions like a desire to eat in the same way a plant might be able to experience hapiness/enjoyment from a nice sunny day. Most living things even bacteria and cells are probably capable of some rudimentary instinct and emotion to the most basic degree, these arent really enough to signify a truely sentient organism capable of self observation.
ticks, ants, spiders, ect, are alive and they may feel some instinctual drives like panic, however they have no concept of self, no concept of death, and no brain structure that enables any mamilian sense of empathy or sentience. They are more or less biological AI driven by the "programming" that is millions of years of genetic instinct. which is probably a good thing for the insects considering ants would have an existential crisis if they ever had the ability to contemplate how insignificant they are. Not that we dont have that problem either i guess #biologicalwhydoweexistproblems
Mind blown ... Omg