In our rainy 38 degree F Pacific Northwest one of the few insects you can always count on finding outside are the ubiquitous midges. I find the antenna and eyes great to look at, although some are really small. This one had antenna a little different from the usual ones I found.
This was photographed at a 16X magnification. The width of the head shown in the picture measures .63mm.
Nikon 10/0.25 M-Plan objective on bellows, Nikon D200 camera
Midge face
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Rik... I agree. I looked at that a few times thinking I should remove it but left it in. I had run the stack all the way back, but it looked terrible when combined... too "busy". . So I decided to just do the area I thought was most interesting and worked well together... the face, antenna and legs. These midges are sort of "hump-backed", and the two lines and dark spot are a couple of hairs and part of the darker "hump"" that are just starting to come into focus. So I did what I should have done it the first place.... here it is:
Rik... I agree. I looked at that a few times thinking I should remove it but left it in. I had run the stack all the way back, but it looked terrible when combined... too "busy". . So I decided to just do the area I thought was most interesting and worked well together... the face, antenna and legs. These midges are sort of "hump-backed", and the two lines and dark spot are a couple of hairs and part of the darker "hump"" that are just starting to come into focus. So I did what I should have done it the first place.... here it is:
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