Our micro-videographer Linda Bower is producing fantastic videos with her microscope at a rate I will never be able to keep up with. We will start posting her videos with her comments and a listing of their length under the title Microblog. I plan to write on topics such as cladocera and water bears when I "get around to it." And don't bother sending me one, I will have to find the time on my own.
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Volvox birthing 3:50
This Volvox mother colony was found in farm pond water located in the Missouri Ozarks, USA. Guest appearances by Cladocera and a variety of plankton.
New to Volvox? No Linda, Barb and I talk about them every day at breakfast!
Volvox is a genus of some 20 species of freshwater green algae (division Chlorophyta) found worldwide. Volvox form spherical or oval hollow colonies that contain some 500 to 60,000 cells embedded in a gelatinous wall and are often just visible with the naked eye. Read more here: at Britannica.com's Volvox entry.
