Another bomber for Dean! TG-4 on microscope setting, flash on, 1/60 second,
assume the flash made it leave the premises. Less than 1/8th inch. Don't ask
how many shots.
http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=22153
> On July 6, 2017 at 12:13 PM Dean Hansen <hanse112@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hmmmm....... Is the tiny insect coming or going? Seems to be going--the
> three stripes in the Better Bomber Details post seem to be lines marking
> abdominal segments. So we're getting a rear view. Two wings or four? In
> the Alan Magayne-Roshak version, it seems that, at least on the left, there
> are two separate wings. But that's less clear on the right. So let's say
> four wings. All flies (Diptera) have two wings, so it's not a fly.
> Bees/hornets/wasps (Hymenoptera) link their fore and hind wings together
> with a series of tiny hooks, so it's not a Hymenoptera. Assume that the
> upper-most wings in the shot are the forewings. There seems (have I used
> "seems" before here?) to be a straight margin to the wings, implying
> possible elytra (hardened forewings in beetles, or Coleoptera) or hemelytra
> (hardened forewings in true bugs, or Hemiptera). A beetle or a bug? It's
> very small for either.
> "Seems," "implying," "assuming." Boy, I'm stumped. Jim, could you
> please just go back and take another couple shots of that tiny insect,
> maybe from both a side and a top view this time? ;<)
> List entomologist Dean
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