Forehead of a Bald Faced Wasp

[Walter Piorkowski]

Top image: Forehead and part of eye complex
Horizontal FOV 2mm
Canon 10D
Canon 20 mm Macro on tubes @ f/5.6
94 images at .0005 inch increments
tent lighting


Bottom Image: Head
Horizontal FOV 8mm
Canon 10D
Canon 35 mm Macro on tubes @ f/4
140 images at .001 inch increments
tent lighting

Both images processed in Combine ZM and Photoshop.

This subject has been imaged by others, like Rik and Charles in remarkable detail. Here is another perspective of this fascinating subject along with a head shot to help navigate you to the close-up zone. The lower image is quite detailed enlarged in its original format.

You may notice that this wasp has a white / black coloration unlike the common yellow jackets. I get these in my yard in the fall when my apples and pears are overripe on the trees. They are 2-3 times the size of a yellow jacket and are formidable looking insects.

Walt

[Erland R.N.]

Very impressive. I find it interesting to see the packing errors at the edge of the insects eyes (not the usual six-sided polygon packing)

Erland

[jmlphoto]

love the first one always wanted to see a good shot of those 3 eyes.

[Ken Ramos]

Great shots there Walt , looks as though that forward ocellus has sustained some battle damage though.

[JoanYoung]

Excellent shots Walter!!

[Walter Piorkowski]

Thank you all. You guys are so observent. Ken noticed the damage to the center ocellus which was my fault handling the subject. I'm not so sure though what Erland is pointing out.

Walt

[puzzledpaul]

Nice shots Walter - I think the first is quite 'other worldly' ... can just imagine these being individual habitats next to the 'main dome'

Is that vegitatation native to the planet, btw - or something the 'terraformers' have achieved?

Not certain, but maybe Erland is talking about the way the individual eye facets are arranged ... roughly around the horiz centreline?

pp