Alien...

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 4:20 am

Some kind of Beetle?

Gérard-64 · Post by **Gérard-64** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 5:53 am

Cyclops wrote:Some kind of Beetle?

Not at all,a simple Ant! (Crematogaster scutellaris).

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:17 am

I'd never have guessed its an ant. It does look like a hollywood alien!

Gérard-64 · Post by **Gérard-64** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 6:41 am

Cyclops wrote:I'd never have guessed its an ant. It does look like a hollywood alien!

The previous was a crop,here is the whole head:

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:12 am

Ah,and the ant is revealed!

Carl_Constantine · Post by **Carl_Constantine** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:09 am

interesting shot. I always thought the Mandibles protruded from the ant's mouth, I didn't realize they could collapse right in like that. I actually thought it was the ant's butt for a second until the whole head was revealed.

It looks like a stacked image. Can you provide details, number of shots, software used, shooting details, etc etc, etc.

Gérard-64 · Post by **Gérard-64** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:04 am

Carl_Constantine wrote:interesting shot. I always thought the Mandibles protruded from the ant's mouth, I didn't realize they could collapse right in like that. I actually thought it was the ant's butt for a second until the whole head was revealed.

It looks like a stacked image. Can you provide details, number of shots, software used, shooting details, etc etc, etc.

Thanks,this picture was stacked with Helicon focus(around 50 shots)and I used a 10X Nikon microscope objective on a bellow.

lothman · Post by **lothman** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 3:18 pm

Gérard-64 wrote:...and I used a 10X Nikon microscope objective on a bellow.

which one?

Gérard-64 · Post by **Gérard-64** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:44 pm

lothman wrote:
Gérard-64 wrote:...and I used a 10X Nikon microscope objective on a bellow.
which one?

The Nikon Plan10/0.30 DIC 160/0.17