I assume it is a mite - if I am mistaken, please correct me. After my mason bees hatched this season, I found hundreds of these mites on them. I presume they are parasitic? Would they infect the cocoons too or would they drop off the host and die during the winter? https://www.waldonell.com/images/_...

That's awesome.

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Excellent images, Waldo This is one of my favorite subjects but I've been unable to get results like yours because the fast photobleaching of the chlorophyll, both with UV and blue excitation. Please, could you tell me the ISO setting and exposure time of the pictures?. Maybe my excitation intensit...

Thanks, I should have recognized the Helicon abbreviations. The details of the filters and excitation source would be very interesting to know. Maybe you have referred to it in another post somewhere that you could refer us to? Excitation Filter: 352 – 402 nm single band bandpass filter  Dichroic M...

Wow, fantastic. Sharp and with a nice wide range of colors. Not knowing what some of the terms mean, can you explain in words what "FLUO-C6.1, HF B+C" means? Thanks. FLUO-C6.1 means autofluorescence, and I used my cube labelled C6.1 which refers to specific dichroic mirror, bandpass filter and exci...

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/886/41331630812_57baaae4af_b.jpg Fern sori by Waldo Nell , on Flickr Fern sori, butchard gardens, 4x, FLUO-C6.1, HF B+C https://farm1.staticflickr.com/812/26503413707_4a7b8f304c_b.jpg Autofluorescence in fern sori by Waldo Nell , on Flickr Fern sori, butchard gardens,...

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That's impressive! Stuck to the underside of a coverslip? What objective is that, Waldo? Well, between the slide and a coverslip yes. I did use a small trick - I did not use water between the slip and slide, I used immersion oil. That worked better with the scales as these scales are hydrophobic. I...

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4707/25651958587_21bc036097_b.jpg Butterfly wing scales by Waldo Nell , on Flickr Butterfly wing scales, 100x, DIC https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4651/25651959837_76c3637f7e_b.jpg Butterfly wing scales by Waldo Nell , on Flickr Butterfly wing scales, 100x, DIC https:/...

Fantastic. Love the simplicity of the first two.

Thanks!

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4624/39334263625_f95ac0bcfa_b.jpg Bryozoan statoblast by Waldo Nell , on Flickr Pitt-Addington Marsh, 10x, DF, HF B https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4628/39334267125_c1baa54303_b.jpg Bryozoan statoblast by Waldo Nell , on Flickr Pitt-Addington Marsh, 10x, DIC, HF B http...

Nice - I like seeing the different technology behind LCD panels.

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