Patterns in Nature -2nd image added

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Patterns in Nature -2nd image added

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actual width 1.8mm
Reversed 50/2.8 El-Nikkor @ one-half stop<f/5.6
51 frames @ 0.01mm

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Front wing of grasshopper??

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No!

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student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.

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Olympus microscope and objectives

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Aha! Overlapping wings of a Winter Stonefly, perhaps?

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You got it!

This is the live beast, body length 17mm (it came with that broken antenna). These guys are geared for cold weather, even when kept at just above freezing they still run like an athlete.

Those "strenthening cells" run diagonally across the front part of the wing; rear half of wing is very flexible.

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NU.
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.

Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives

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