Resources
Below are links to download a series of documents that amateur microscopists may find of value. Most have been produced by Iceni members and are for personal use only. Click on the document name to open it in a new window.
Article on Braula coeca by Peter Sunderland
Slide Making & Ringing by Jeremy Quinlan
Article on the use of LOCA (Liquid Optically Clear Adhesive) as a mountant - by Gordon Brown
Making Microtools (Part 1) - by Andy Johnston
Making Microtools (Part 2) - by Andy Johnston
Staining Insect Wings - by Andy Johnston
Preparation of Dry Mounts of Insects - Lewis Woolnough
Microscopical Examination of Yeast Lewis Woolnough
Mounting Fungal Material in Lactophenol - Lewis Woolnough
Gram Staining Technique Applied to Yeast - Lewis Woolnough
Making a Microscope Slide of Pollen Grains - Lewis Woolnough
Theory of sedimentation and centrifugation - Peter Clarke
Ringing a microscope slide - Peter Clarke
Beck Photomicrography Bench - Gordon Brown
Melissopalynology - John Rhodes
Worker Bee dissection - Jeremy Quinlan
Making a Patch Stop - Lewis Woolnough
Quantifying Nosema Infection - Jeremy Quinlan
Embedding, sectioning, staining etc - Peter Sunderland
Staining Plant Sections - Lajos Winkler
Procedure for mounting mites - Graham Matthews (section on Loca added by Gordon Brown)
This page contains helpful documents largely written by our members. More links to external web sites are available using the menu below.
