A collage of some of the insect diversity found on a single goldenrod plant in my yard, including beetles (Platycis minutus, Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata) flies (Sphaerophoria scripta, melanostoma scalare, Calliphoridae, Hybos, Milichiidae) and some unidentified true bugs. Magnifications 3-9x on a full frame sensor
Here are few favorites of the individual frames.
A hoverfly, Sphaerophoria scripta
a Milichiid fly,
and a ladybird beetle, Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata,
the ladybird beetle has some annoying reflectance from the ring light. I should probably rig up some polarizers for that, but for most subjects it's actually not a problem.
Credit to Viktor Nilsson for help with the identification
Technical details:
Olympus SZX 16 with Olympus SDFPLAPO .8x .12 objective
Schott visiLED slim ring light
Nikon D850, Lmscope adapter
focus stacks in zerene
each specimen was placed on a microscope slide, over the aperture of a ThorLabs xyr1 stage, which resulted in the clean black background.
Insect diversity
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Clever idea to photograph the insect variety of a plant, something I've never thought about. Good job.
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Are those scales that I see on the ladybird beetle? If so where did they come from?
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What a beautiful menagerie! Nice again to see such nice photos taken on a stereo.
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Oh, good catch, don't know how I missed that but yes they do look like scales. No idea where they came from!
Scarodactyl wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 10:36 amWhat a beautiful menagerie! Nice again to see such nice photos taken on a stereo.
Thanks!
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