Our squirrels are on hiatus once again so that they can attend to their winter provisioning. In their absence, we turn to the lakes? What's living in there besides what we already know fish, turtles, and the like? Well, during a recent visit to St. Mary's Lake, Fr. Terry Ehrman, C.S.C., theologian and botanist, took a sample of the water, about one meter down. Placing the sample under a microscope at 200x magnification, this what Fr. Terry saw... diatom fragillaria. Commonly called, algae, it was no surprise to find diatom fragillaria floating around, but there was more! See below and see what else was spotted. On the various specimens found the small sample of water, Fr. Terry said, "The lakes are teeming with life!"
BUT THERE'S STILL MORE...
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