These Danged Farmers

CLEW, I couldn't tell you just what nematode it is.
I thought I had it down but it turns out I didn't.

Same with the fungal aspect.
I too have seen the rings on the fungus from time to time and the capture of nematodes with those rings.
Not usually but every now and then.
More often the fungus just loops and wraps around and around.
I have observed motility from time to time.
It anchors and then, "waves."
This throws me as well.
Sometimes I can see rings and what looks exactly like slime mold characteristics, which as you know indicates protozoa, all in one. That could account for the sometimes witnessed motility.

That which really does at first glance look like a motile hair threw me off at first.
My first clue that it wasn't just a hair was it moving on me trying to get it off a needle point that I used to snag and remove.
I think it is a female nematode.
Females are generally considerably larger than males more times than not in the nematode world.
The tip-off was the egg load contained in some I looked at.
I've been able to catch a female that had dumped half her eggs.
I've scooped eggs.
I have observed hatchlings from these eggs.

There was a nematode identified that did go for the hair follicle and was afflicting horses.
I don't know if this is the same as that but I do know this half does love the follicles.
That likely accounts for so many of the reports of false hairs.
I keep my hair short and at first glance thought these were just hairs.
Until I went to take a closer look.

I do see the same nematode and fungus together over and over in direct relationship to personal suffering, as in taking them from skin surface.
I have seen the nematode under the skin come to the surface.
And of course plenty on the surface.
Most often by the time I get to them they aren't moving.
The first time I snagged one, put it under the scope, and witnessed it moving my heart sank.
I know the fungus insinuates itself onto skin surface tissue.
I don't know if this is simply an anchoring or if a deeper involvement is indicated.

I also see them everywhere in the environment.
There is zero way to avoid them.

As nematodes are known to carry bacteria with them, and to farm that bacteria for food, I'd like to know the specific bacteria associated with this nematode.

Basically it looks like I'm dealing with a bunch of f***ing Farmers.
The nematode farms bacteria.
The fungus farms nematodes.
The flying zips are attracted to the field for what is going on in it now.

I sure would like to stop being the acreage.

I need more power in a microscope.
I need better optics and a better camera.
I need more study work.

I really need a life devoid of this shit.






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