I managed to find some open water recently, outlet of a frozen lake. This mosquito larva was in my sample. It had the typical black highly sclerotized head capsule when I isolated it to photograph. Next time I looked it had moulted and the head capsule had not began to harden allowing for a 'look inside'. I think the white blobs up front is the brain, dorsal ganglia.
The head and thorax closeup in under crossed polarizers and some type of wave plate. Shows a pair of muscles that likely work the head fans.
Top: Nikon 4x CF N Plan finite on bellows, Nikon D90
Bottom: Olympus SPlan 4x + 1.25x intermediate + 2.5x NFK, Nikon D600.
Stacked images, Zerene Stacker PMax.
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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
