Pseudoscorpion
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Pseudoscorpion
Usually abundant in forest leaf litter, can be extracted using a home-made Berlese Funnel HERE.
This specimen was removed from the leg of a fly; pseudoscorpions are phoretic.
Microscope slide temporary mount. Length: 3.6mm from tip of chelicerae to end of abdomen.
Top image: Whole specimen. Note the Pedipalps - large pincerlike appendages have poison glands opening at tips for capturing and killing prey.
Bottom image: Close-up of Chelicerae
At the front of the body are the Chelicerae - small claspers for holding prey while feeding. The moveable outer finger has a spinneret near the tip involved in silk production.
Bottom Image: Nikon 10x objective, 160mm bellows extension; 12 frames at 0.02mm, HF 4.1. 1st test of my new set-up using Nikon Focusing Block HERE
Many refs. to Pseudoscorpions on Google including HERE
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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
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