A funny little film. My eyes have been quite sore lately. Initially I put it down to hayfever but the sensation is more odd than that. More a kind of crawling, twitching sensation in my eye lids. They all look ok but felt funny. Like something was crawling about in the edges of my lashes.
Turns out something is...
I'd vaguely heard of these things before, small mites that live inside the bottom of your eyelashes. Apparently you can get something on an infestation of them so being a big geek I decided to pull out my microscope (an old Cooke, Troughton and Sims) and go mite hunting.
I pulled out a lash with some tweezers and accidentally managed to get two. I put them on a slide with a drop of water and a cover slip then took a look.
And I found two mites! And yes, you can see them crawling about. The film isn't great but gets better at the higher magnifications. I was simply holding my phone camera to the eye piece. Initial magnification was 24x, then to 60x then finally 240x.
This is all about them here: [ Ссылка ]
And a little more writeup is on my blog here: [ Ссылка ]
