flies usually lay eggs, don't they? Do some of them carry their young around or was this some sort of parasite? Egg laying the norm. Parasite probable . Live birth unlikely, but who knows? There are millions of species of flies... I am filming the development of long legged fly (Dolichopodidae) egg...

Taken with my point and shoot Panasonic DC-ZS70. Hand held. Some fill flash on last two. Light mostly from ambient cloudy day. http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/1597_6F65742F5EBA486FB5FBDAAADBE65B0B_1.jpg http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/1597_CD646B56EA594B81ACC9DD9CD9CC4AA1...

Sykes wrote: you need to be aware of window violation, your brain detects it is an impossible situation. I went to the link and read about 3D window violation. I am more familiar with various Windows 10 violations. I commit them frequently. I have the good fortune of easily perceiving stereo in 3D p...

My wife and I took an anniversary stroll in the nearby park. We hoped to look for warblers as the spring migration through northern Illinois draws to a close. We struck out on warblers, but as we walked home I noticed some tiny doli flies on the leaves of skunk cabbage growing along the bank of a sm...

Great photos and narrative!

Keith

This is quite interesting and I reviewed the Wikipedia reference.

I found myself considering the hydrophobic corneal lenses of flies. But worthy of a separate post...

As impressive as the scales are (very nice photo!) the great puzzle to me is the cornea of the eyes. They appear so opaque. Even in freshly collected weevils and many other dark eyed beetles. Fly eyes I can usually see right into. The same with butterfly and moth eyes. And this forum has some remark...

Both photos taken with the same 10X magnification 10 Oly objective, 200 mm pentax tube lens, LED bucket light. 50 images for the quill, 130 images for the fluff The critter? First hair http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/1597_20200331161124_ZS_DMap_1.jpg Second hair http://www.photomacrogr...

Other ideas? The goose neck specimen holder is probably part of the problem, but the flower stem is probably a greater problem. Simplest solution is to relocate the rig to a less bouncy part of the house. If that is not an option, consider suspending the baseplate from soft bungee cords. Much depen...

First, great photos and interesting subject! Second, what I love about this post in particular, and this community in general is that the seasonal collection of blue mason bee pupae may be discussed as though it was a common every day activity. Like picking apples. Dalantech, you make the fungus gna...

Guppy,

Fine work here! The detailed image you linked shows off the spectacular beauty of the scale lattice structure. Very nice work!

Keith

I very much enjoy this thread. Stereo works fine. Shape and arrangement of whitish “corpuscles“ in Rik’s stereo I find as interesting as the balloons in previous threads. A Christmas cactus I brought up from my basement had a hitch hiker stink bug onboard. I smiled as I eyeballed the pits on this tr...

I often see spiders at the lake shore of a local park. They venture into the water as well as scampering along the sand. We are both in pursuit of shore flies but for different purposes.

Lovely work!

Keith

Very nice image. Browsing to the larger image very worth while. The details are fascinating..

Keith

Here are front and back photos of a spare bulb. Note the 170 lumen, 12V, 170mA markings. The bulb measures 1.125” top to base excluding pins. http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/1597_27D34BBF89D142F98911CE5F8226BF92_1.jpg http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/1597_08A028E63668469D9...