Ben came home from school the other day with a letter saying that there was an outbreak of  head lice. We checked him and he indeed had picked up the little creatures. So what did we do? Whip out the microscope!

This is 200x magnification:

 

This is an empty egg case attached to a single human hair (200X):

 

We also recorded a couple of videos:

60X Magnification

200X Magnification

 

All the images and videos were made with our QX3 digital microscope:

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