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Old 03-03-2009, 02:46 AM
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Default water bears are fun, look for them on hikes.
I've found water bears at summer river shore(St.Lawrence river/ny-canada border), in my backyard wooden barrel water-foutain,and hikeing in NY/NJ highlands this past 2/09.

I used to think they were hard to encounter...but if you go to open space,natural parkllands...collect a patch of moss(size of a cicken egg more than enough moss sample), at edge of stream collect a scrapeing of moss cover on a stream bed rock (size of a pat of butter more than enough sample). At home, at your microscope bench...you will find water bears...just take a sample of fluid from stream moss sample...slosh it in and out of collecting glass dropper insde/among that wetmoss..place this fluid on your microscope slide...with 10x eyepeice+ 10x objective...hunt for bear...but do stop to:'smell the roses' of all the other aquatic life you'll observe on that first slide. some days you eat the bear, somedays the bear eats you! charlie guevara NJ,US
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Old 03-04-2009, 06:24 PM
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Please clean any lint off your camera adaptor lens BEFORE you take images! Sorry for that 'sea bird shaped' lint spec folks. charlie guevara (no, it is not my copyright logo!):
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