Because this site does not have the ability to save video, I rejuvenated an old YouTube channel and now call it MicroMania. Here is a link to a rudimentary video I made using Zerene synthetic stereo to generate images that were then made in to Gifs and strung together to make a short video that atte...

Hamuli are so cool. The stereo is great! Thanks for your comment. Rik's Zerene's ability to generate synthetic stereo is fantastic. I actually made a video about the hamuli using a technique he calls rocking stereo where the apparent right and left viewpoints that show the stereo effect can be frac...

Interesting. There are other mechanisms that insects use to hook the fore- and hind wings together. Thanks for your comment. Yes, there are various mechanisms that insects use to tether the two wings together. Hamuli are present only in the Hymenoptera. Only the damsel and dragon flies use all four...

After working for hours to get this posted, I realized that the stereo view is actually cross eye and not parallel. Here is the parallel view. Sorry

Hamuli of a wasp. The forewing and hindwing of the Hymenoptera are tethered together for more efficient flight by a series of very tiny hooks on the hindwing called hamuli. The hooks arise from the anterior edge of the ventrally directed curled edge of the hindwing. They hook onto the ventrally dire...

Beautiful images. Lots of hard earned tips shared, thanks!

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Let us not forget this is an artistic tour de force in addition to mind blowing technology. The use of depth of field is magic.

Absolutely incredible!

I honestly don’t know what to say. I am blown away from the video before I read the work you did to get it. Incredible , thank you for sharing.

Really cool!

Great images. Really nice set up, too. Thanks for sharing.

As always, great images with good discussions. As to the problem with antenna foreground transparency to the wing behind, that might be a relatively easy fix by restocking only the more anterior images where there is no sharp focus at wing base to bleed through. Thanks for sharing

Very nice image

Beautiful image. Congratulations. Can you give info on technique and set up please. Thanks