The Vinegar Zoo
Tis is what the bacteria look like when they are magnified a few hundred thousand times their size. A close look at an enlargement of this photo graph clearly shows the actual DNA strands of the Acetobacter.
Here you can see what the Acetobacter look like inside. The reason some look round is you are seeing how they look from the top down. Still others look oval because they are slightly tilted.
This is a closer look than exhibit one. Notice some are longer than others.
This is how the bacteria look as they swim around in the vinegar. Actually they have little tails called flagella that whip around to give them motion, but the flagella are too small to see.
Acetobacter aceti is the bacteria that makes vinegar. It can consume sugar or alcohol, but like other alcoholics you may know, it prefers alcohol. They are Gram-negative oval or rod-shaped bacteria. This is what they look like close up.
There are two types of images. Exhibits one and two are scanning electron micrographs, aka, SEMs. They allow us to see what the bacteria look like on the outside. Exhibits three and four are transmission electron micrographs, aka, TEMs. They allow us to see what the bacteria look like inside.
There are two types of images. Exhibits one and two are scanning electron micrographs, aka, SEMs. They allow us to see what the bacteria look like on the outside. Exhibits three and four are transmission electron micrographs, aka, TEMs. They allow us to see what the bacteria look like inside.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7iLWwjAXWQ&NR=1
Vinegaroon at dinner time
The Giant Vinegaroon is also known as M. giganteus and the whip scorpion. They are referred to as the Vinegaroon because they are know to squirt vinegar in self defense. I doubt is is balsamic vinegar they are squirting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6_ulXnoyiI
How Vinegar Eels look in Vinegar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnjwvtFvyeQ&feature=related
Closer look at
Vinegar eels
Vinegar eels
Sometimes if you hold vinegar up to the light you can see a few creepie swimmies in the vinegar. Especially if you are making vinegar yourself. These small nematodes officially know as Turbatrix acetii or Anguillula aceti are quite small but large enough to see with the naked eye.
They are not harmful to humans. But if you don't like to see your salad crawling across the plate, you can filter the out by pouring the vinegar slowly through a coffee filter which is sitting in a colander.
Some people grow them commercially as food for small tropical fish.
They are not harmful to humans. But if you don't like to see your salad crawling across the plate, you can filter the out by pouring the vinegar slowly through a coffee filter which is sitting in a colander.
Some people grow them commercially as food for small tropical fish.
As far as I know the Vinegar mite does not play and important role in the production of vinegar. But it must like vinegar because it can be found burrowed into the wood of vinegar barrels.
This wonderful photograph of the vinegar fly is used courtesy of "Fir0002/Flagstaffotos"
Time flies like an arrow and vinegar flies like any vinegar they can find. Being so small they don't consume a lot of it, but you can find them just about where ever vinegar is open.
You can actually catch a lot more flies with vinegar than with honey. But what would you do with all those flies?
The top shot
You can actually catch a lot more flies with vinegar than with honey. But what would you do with all those flies?
The top shot
There are some special animals and organisms with a special connection to vinegar. Some make the vinegar. Some just live in the vinegar. But all the creatures in the Vinegar zoo are jumping up and down for you.
Acetobacter Aceti
Vinegar Fly
Vinegar mite
Vinegar eel
Vinegaroon
Acetobacter Aceti
Vinegar Fly
Vinegar mite
Vinegar eel
Vinegaroon