Caught this little fly in my kitchen. Looked at it with a loupe, but I couldn't see the mites. I thought that was dust particles or something. I didn't realize they were mites until I had the fly positioned in front of the 20X objective.
I don't know if the little ones are baby mites or different species
Sony a7R II + Oly LMPlanFl 20/0.40 + Apo-Gerogon 150 @16.6X .
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- Macrero
Little Fly with Mites
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Little Fly with Mites
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Thank you, Adi! Glad you like it.
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Interesting, and a nice picture.
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Jörgen Hellberg
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Jörgen Hellberg
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Thank you, Jörgen!
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Really cool image. Reminds me of the poem by Augustus De Morgan:
Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so, ad infinitum.
And the great fleas, themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so, ad infinitum.
And the great fleas, themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - Henry David Thoreau
Thank you, JW!
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Thank you, Lothar! There were actually another couple of small mites, which are not seen in the picture. Poor fly indeed
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