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Description: Article by Jan Parmentia on the freshwater alga, Hydrodictyon, that reproduces so fast that it can become a pest.
One of the most beautiful and interesting algae that we can find in the plankton of fresh water is the water net or Hydrodictyon. It has the form of a netlike hollow sack and in extreme cases it can grow to a length of several tens of centimeters. The mesh of the net is formed by five or six cylindrical cells lying against each other. Hydrodictyon likes clean, eutrophic water and can sometimes reproduce so very fast that it behaves like a pest. The alga has recently been introduced in New Zealand and has become a plague there. Fish farms, lakes, irrigation ditches and rice fields are ravaged by these algae and research up till now did not have much results.
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| Page title: | WATER NET |
| Keywords: | Microscopy, Micscape, amateur microscopy, algae, pond life, pond dipping, water net, hydrodictyon |
| Description: | water net, hydrodctyon |
| IP-address: | 98.138.19.143 |