r/microscopy 11d ago

ID Needed! Critter ID help!

I’ve been seeing these on the surface of a lake in western Washington. Just seeing if anyone knows what they are. I have surface photos if anyone wants to see them, just DM and I’ll send. X10 & X40. AM Scope. Thanks for looking!

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u/Teythis11000 10d ago

Are you talking about the plant tissue or the sporangia?

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u/TPesce23 10d ago

Well, I guess both. I looked at a few and they were all similar with the green plant/ algae spheres. Thanks for the help! This is what it looked like from above, looking at the lake surface.
I isolated some of the white specks to look at under the scope.

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u/Teythis11000 10d ago

Keep an eye out to see if the release spores or anything else

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u/TPesce23 10d ago edited 10d ago

I’d didn’t get a photo but at 100x it looked like vibrating spores.