Rik: I hoped you would accept the repost.
I don't think it's a lighting artifact, it's a density thing. The less dense edge indicates much thinner chitin which suggests a cutting edge.
Similar to the tabanid mandible
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Stingers of paper wasp and honeybee (new image added)
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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
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Harold Gough
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A 1950s invention in which one serrated blade is static and the other, closely parallel and removable for cleaning, is moved backwards and forwards by the motor. I have one (inherited) in a box somewhere, finding an ordinary carving knife more efficient/manoueverable.NikonUser wrote:what the heck is an electronic (electric) kitchen knife?
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