Page 1 of 3 123 LastLast
Results 1 to 10 of 21

Thread: Microscopy

Hybrid View

Previous Post Previous Post   Next Post Next Post
  1. #1
    Senior Member HJBee's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2012
    Location
    Quarriers Village
    Posts
    391
    Blog Entries
    1

    Default Microscopy

    Attended the 2 day course at SASA this weekend. I found it thoroughly enjoyable and the 2 days flew by. Now invested in 2 microscopes I'm looking forward to receiving for my poor weather beekeeping activities. A few photos to share, unfortunately my bank balance could not go to the cost for the dissecting Microscope I used on the course. Anyone want a shot at identifying the part of anatomy, the disease, the pollen?


  2. #2
    Administrator gavin's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2010
    Location
    Tayside
    Posts
    4,464
    Blog Entries
    41

    Default

    Errmmm .... well, some look real dodgy!

    (I'm barred from answering due to spending a couple of days with the ladies at SASA a few weeks ago ... and having been a professional palynologist until recently ... although I may have been stumped on the pollen one myself. Go on then, give us an idea of scale for the last one.)

  3. #3
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Feb 2010
    Location
    Somerset
    Posts
    1,884
    Blog Entries
    35

    Default

    No idea about the pollen and not sure if we've got spoiler tags enabled but I'll try:

    [spoiler]
    Disease is acarine
    Anatomy is the sting and related parts
    [/spoiler]

  4. #4
    Senior Member HJBee's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2012
    Location
    Quarriers Village
    Posts
    391
    Blog Entries
    1

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Neils View Post
    No idea about the pollen and not sure if we've got spoiler tags enabled but I'll try:
    Bang on Neil!

  5. #5
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Feb 2010
    Location
    Somerset
    Posts
    1,884
    Blog Entries
    35

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by HJBee View Post
    Bang on Neil!
    Phew! I will admit to having done a few of those disease tests, but I've never done that dissection.

  6. #6
    Senior Member Kate Atchley's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2010
    Location
    near Kelso, Scottish Borders
    Posts
    411

    Default

    As you gathered ... some adept beekeepers on the course! And yes ... fascinating and fun. A clue perhaps ... I think the pollen's the one that can be used as a base measure?

  7. #7
    Administrator gavin's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2010
    Location
    Tayside
    Posts
    4,464
    Blog Entries
    41

    Default

    Well then ..... it looks to me rather like larch (without its normal granules) but that's not a small plant! Larch pollen is about 80 microns across.

    Standards for microscopy are often hazel (and it isn't hazel) or Lycopodium spores and its not that either.

    Here is larch from the Austrian database:



    PS Spoiler tags?! I'm off to Google ....

  8. #8
    Administrator gavin's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2010
    Location
    Tayside
    Posts
    4,464
    Blog Entries
    41

    Default

    Spoiler tags: For vBulletin 4 you need an add-on via code inserted somewhere, lots of debate about upgrades to vBulletin breaking it in Firefox, hmmnn. We can live without it.

  9. #9
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Nov 2011
    Location
    400 miles S of Stonehaven
    Posts
    398

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by Kate Atchley View Post
    A clue perhaps ... I think the pollen's the one that can be used as a base measure?
    I haven't the faintest clue about pollen, mainly because I'm too tight fisted to buy an identification book at the full price and don't have easy access to a microscope, but I'm fairly sure I heard (or read somewhere) not long ago that British honey always contains Forget Me Not pollen. If true, interesting, if not then totally irrelevant.

  10. #10
    Senior Member HJBee's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2012
    Location
    Quarriers Village
    Posts
    391
    Blog Entries
    1

    Default

    Scale is appx 100 micron, quite a big pollen for such a small plant. It's seasonal too.

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •