Keywords: biml usgs droege mosquito bug bugs animal animals animalia arthropod arthropods arthropoda insect insects insecta fly flies diptera nematocera culicomorpha culicidae larvae pupae black background stackshot usgsbiml black background Experiment: Ah, what a difference fresh specimens make, having retained their color, and a tweak of the technique, this mosquito larvae expired within 15 minutes or so of its picture being taken. You can see a great deal of detail here at 4x and by moving our set up further from the wall I reduced the illumination of the background cloth and got a blacker final product that was easy to photoshop out. Now we are getting somewhere. This final picture was cropped from the original by about 70%. Thanks to Army Public Health for the mosquitoes and consulations with Tony Guterriez Note the internal detail visible...nerves and digestive tract and the lovely color of the rear fin like things Experiment: Ah, what a difference fresh specimens make, having retained their color, and a tweak of the technique, this mosquito larvae expired within 15 minutes or so of its picture being taken. You can see a great deal of detail here at 4x and by moving our set up further from the wall I reduced the illumination of the background cloth and got a blacker final product that was easy to photoshop out. Now we are getting somewhere. This final picture was cropped from the original by about 70%. Thanks to Army Public Health for the mosquitoes and consulations with Tony Guterriez Note the internal detail visible...nerves and digestive tract and the lovely color of the rear fin like things |