P_T wrote:deter any intention to nick them.

British slang is OK for the Pommies but may not recognizable to the Americans.

Do these flies come in other colours? I found quite a large fly only it was light blue in colour with no hint of any green hue. In North America, Blowflies (family Calliphoridae) can be shining metallic blue, green or bronze; some appear black and others are checker-board grey. In the genus Lucilia...

Do you have literature/keys to do so? (If so do you mind posting some info about those?). I have only a key to the NA species; but there must be some keys for the UK species. The standard text for Europe is Rognes, K. 1991. Blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. E.J. Brill/...

Cyclops wrote:Now I really like that in mono!

Actually it's in full RGB

Single seed pod is crop from full frame; max. width of lower left seed (in this view) = 1.0mm.

Insert image is full frame; D2Xs, 15cm extension, Nikon MF 105 reversed ar full extension, f/8 on lens, 39 images at 0.2mm, HF 4.1 stack

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/569_img032_1.jpg This is Lucilia sericata . length 8.5mm, one of several spp. of green- blue-bottles in the Holarctic. Live, posed specimen. Note the number of setae on the thorax and compare with those on lauriek's fly HERE . The number and arrangement...

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/569_img031_1.jpg Male March Fly (Bibionidae) that flies in the Fall (go figure). Length 8mm. Flies are pure dust magnets; eye was cleaned under a 'scope and must have picked up dust between 'scope and camera. I shoot everything in Adobe RGB, didn't appr...

How does it use these strange mouthparts?--Rik According to Steve Marshall "Insects Their Natural History and Diversity" (the best book for species identification for insects of eastern North America) the proboscis is housed in the snout; its drops down at right angles when the fly feeds. So my gue...

It looks like the standard three occeli (simple eyes) have been displaced forward and they seem to have benefitted from the big-eye gene. Harold I had a difficult time trying to find literature re ocelli in Mayflies. Normally ocelli are rather small but these below the eye are huge. Snodgrass 1935 ...

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/569_img030_1.jpg Note the long snout and the wild-boar-tusks on the proboscis (left one sticking up, right one somewhat flattened). Diptera: Syrphidae: Rhingia nasica . The only member of the genus in North America. Length 8.5mm. Face shot: D2Xs + 8cm e...

On a different note: I set up the pb6 bellows but have not been able to get the metering on the flash correct, even at f22, was washed out. (ttl cannot work, so I guess I need a flash meter) Also there is no way to use an af lens on a bellows bc one cannot adjust the f/stop manually. I guess Ill tr...

Thanks Doug and Tom.
Yes Doug your deerflies/horseflies are over for the year.
Tom, in Florida you are lucky and have them flying all year.

Is it possible/practical/desireable to have gallery pages for commonly posted subjects? An example would be a page for Fly Faces, thumbnails at perhaps 200 pixels wide, 4 across and perhaps 4 or 5 rows. This would let the viewer compare images in a very convenient way, such as posing styles, lightin...

Thanks Charles. I'll get both from Edmund for convenience.

Will a RMS threaded Nikon microscope objective screw into this T-mount?
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If so, will this T-mount screw into a Nikon BR2A ring?

or do I need to buy a T-adapter NT42-835?
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Or to start from the beginning, How do I attach a Nikon RMS threaded microscope objective to a PB-6 bellows?