🌱 Microbe Mondays 🔬 | Testate Amoeba & Flagellate Captured by Keisha W This time-lapse view at 40x magnification reveals a testate amoeba moving through the soil water film alongside a flagellate protozoan—two key players in a biologically active soil food web. Testate amoebae are shelled protozoa that build protective “tests” from organic debris or mineral particles. They are important indicators of stable, well-structured soils and often appear as fungal biomass increases. By grazing on bact

Vampyrella Amoeba Eating Spirogyra ⁠ ⁠ Time-lapse light microscopy footage of a #Vampyrella #lateritia trophozoite (center) attached to and feeding on a strand of #Spirogyra #algae (tubular). Vampyrella is a unicellular micro-organism sometimes described as a "vampire amoeba". It attacks other #microscopic organisms, such as algae, and penetrates their cell walls and extracts the contents (green). The complete process of cell wall penetration, suction and extraction is shown in this clip. Vampyr

This amoeba is engulfing another protist (heliozoan) via phagocytosis. In simplest terms, it’s using its body to eat, digest, and obtain nutrients. #MicroscopicMonday 🧫🔬 by MicrobialEcology | Science Channel