This image is a side view of the extended mothparts of a common Blow Fly (the big bluebottle fly
Calliphora vomitoria - an appropriate name due it's habit of 'spitting' on food).
It is meant to compliment my set of images
HERE
and probably should have been the 1st image of the set as an aid to orientation. This is a full 3-dimensional image with the entire head suspended in cedarwood oil, not flattened.
Note the weird terminology 'terminus of food canal'; the true mouth of the fly is somewhere up in the head at the start of the alimentary canal.
"flat plates with bifurcated tip" should read ".... tips".
This whole discussion was prompted by Rik's, and later Dave's, excellent images of a Blow Fly's proboscis.
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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.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives
