Looking for snails infected with diplostomid trematodes around Helsinki is fun!
The aquatic snails are individually placed in buckets and exposed to strong light to trigger the emergence of cercariae larvae of the parasite (upper left picture). Snail mucus is then collected and screened for parasites under the microscope (bottow right picture - the kind of white stripes).
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