Chewing Louse: Polarization vs. brightfield

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Chewing Louse: Polarization vs. brightfield

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This literally fell out of the sky.
Two crows flew over my yard, one aggressively chasing the other; contact was made and 2 feathers floated down. This chewing louse was on one of the feathers.
It's in the Family: Philopteridae (Mallophaga:Ambycera). Length: 1.50 mm.
I thought I liked the effect on polarization with some arthropods but with this louse regular brightfield gives a more pleasing image.
Both with 4x Nikon objective on an Olympus BHS with 1.25x intermediate lens and a 2.5x NFK relay lens. Without and with polarizers engaged.
The row of dots right center edge is a feather 'filament' it appeared o be feeding on.
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Post by Cactusdave »

Ahh! One of my favourite subjects. :wink: I've greatly enjoyed imaging some old Victorian slides of chewing lice, they retained amazing muscle detail and looked well with polarisation and DIC as well as brightfield. www.photomacrography.net/forum/viewtopi ... ight=louse
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