An "arrow", 1.8 mm long and 18µ wide at greatest width.
Top: base
Center: about mid way along the "arrow"
Bottom: apical termination
Oly BHS, 40x Splan Apo + 1.25x intermediate +3.3x NFK relay lens, under polarizers, D600; Zerene PMax stacks.
Images have had edges enhanced with Photoshop Emboss Filter which places a fine white edge adjacent to the true edge; especially obvious in the text.
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NU.
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
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Olympus microscope and objectives
Hmm...., perhaps a kind of defensive hair of an insect larva like a "cat" or that of a dermestid?
--Betty
Atticus Finch: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view
- until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
Lee, N. H. 1960. To Kill a Mockingbird. J. B. Lippincott, New York.
A species that has only recently entered southern New Brunswick. They were exceedingly about this summer (2012)
NU.
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives