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Some bug drowned


I was brushing my teeth when I looked closely at a black spot in a little pool on the edge of the sink. There was this bug, apparently dead.
With the corner of a paper towel. I retrieved her and examined her with a flashlight and a magnifying glass. And of course I took a couple of dozen pictures, none of them very good.
I was testing the focus-stacking software on my camera but that was no big success. This picture was not focus-stacked. And although it was under the magnifying glass (and thus the two lightspots in the upper right) I was shooting at this point through the plastic side of the glass. My 60mm macro lens can get in pretty close on its own.
I think it is a tiny ichneumon wasp, no more than 3mm long from head to arse tip. Where she came from in the first week of December I don't know.
I say "she" because at least in some of the other shots I can see her ovipositor sticking back from the rear end of her body.
I like finding bugs. But really, in this case I just like the picture.
[And . . . maybe it wasn't an ovipositor at all, but a leg shoved off in a strange position. Oh, who knows?]
With the corner of a paper towel. I retrieved her and examined her with a flashlight and a magnifying glass. And of course I took a couple of dozen pictures, none of them very good.
I was testing the focus-stacking software on my camera but that was no big success. This picture was not focus-stacked. And although it was under the magnifying glass (and thus the two lightspots in the upper right) I was shooting at this point through the plastic side of the glass. My 60mm macro lens can get in pretty close on its own.
I think it is a tiny ichneumon wasp, no more than 3mm long from head to arse tip. Where she came from in the first week of December I don't know.
I say "she" because at least in some of the other shots I can see her ovipositor sticking back from the rear end of her body.
I like finding bugs. But really, in this case I just like the picture.
[And . . . maybe it wasn't an ovipositor at all, but a leg shoved off in a strange position. Oh, who knows?]
Fred Fouarge has particularly liked this photo
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