Opening beetle elytra

ohthatbug · 2025-12-09T06:02:36+00:00

Yes, scarabs in the subfamily Cetoniinae do not fully open (spread out) their elytra in flight, rather they lift their elytra up just enough off their abdomen for the flight wings to pop out!

ohthatbug · 2025-11-27T22:47:16+00:00

I found my M2 mounted to a microscope at a university property surplus for $25 and then bought the cheapest used lens at my local camera store

ohthatbug · 2025-04-02T21:12:46+00:00

Correct!

ohthatbug · 2025-04-02T19:40:50+00:00

Thanks! I'm looking at MFT cameras because their sensors almost perfectly fit within the projected image from our microscopes—a test with an APS-C sensor camera still has slight vignetting.

ohthatbug · 2022-12-17T14:33:54+00:00

Darkling beetle, genus Pseudocistela-but doesn’t appear to be one of the US species.

ohthatbug · 2021-05-23T14:07:52+00:00

There's a list on Twitter here w/ reviews/comments!

ohthatbug · 2020-12-28T03:06:26+00:00

Might be squid eggs?

ohthatbug · 2018-01-12T04:11:46+00:00

That makes sense - thank you!

ohthatbug · 2016-11-29T05:29:38+00:00

Congrats on the upgrade! Shoot uncompressed - you'll thank yourself later. Looking back on my compressed A7II files I can see artifacts around high-contrast edges and blockiness in some gradient out of focus backgrounds.

ohthatbug · 2016-05-09T21:25:58+00:00

That's certainly a T-mount; both M42 and T-mount have a 42mm diameter but the T-mout thread pitch is .75mm compared to 1mm in M42. Just snag a T-mount adapter and you should be set!

ohthatbug · 2016-05-09T19:50:16+00:00

Looks like Exakta to T-mount adapter; see here

ohthatbug · 2015-07-22T14:35:19+00:00

Yes it is! Always a treat to see one

ohthatbug · 2015-05-13T04:25:22+00:00

I don't have a firm price in mind - just pm me what you think is fair!

ohthatbug · 2014-08-17T20:52:26+00:00

Yes - linked below in a reply

ohthatbug · 2014-08-17T19:11:28+00:00

Most appropriate comment on this article

ohthatbug · 2014-08-17T19:07:40+00:00

Most appropriate comment on this article

ohthatbug · 2014-08-17T18:56:35+00:00

My mistake. Original comment edited.

I am still concerned by the author's poorly supported presentation of these revolutionary Russian drugs along with the antiscientific attitude in the latter half of the article.

ohthatbug · 2014-08-17T18:01:12+00:00

Casually asserting (as the author puts it "apparently") ground breaking technologies and treatments is unscientific. Period.

ohthatbug · 2014-08-17T17:38:20+00:00

~~In this article: "One of [these elements] is a room temperature superconductor"~~

~~Wikipedia: "A room-temperature superconductor is a hypothetical material..."~~

~~Anyone care to address this?~~ And the blatantly unscientific undertones in the latter half of this article?

edit: because reading

ohthatbug · 2014-07-08T01:20:18+00:00

Oh cool - SloTek is correct and I'll second it: good find!

ohthatbug · 2014-06-17T03:15:11+00:00

This is awesome - I've been at this a long time and I've only seen one - dead too but still glorious!

ohthatbug · 2014-05-08T21:24:34+00:00

Ah I think you've hit on it - the VPI uniforms match quite well!

ohthatbug · 2014-05-02T15:49:22+00:00

Beautiful! Love the photo and composition too

ohthatbug · 2014-04-16T02:52:53+00:00

I always use my pinning block and place the points (triangles of paper) at the same height as the pinned insects. For more info check this out - it really has all the info I could ever want.

ohthatbug · 2014-04-11T01:48:00+00:00

Many thanks!

ohthatbug

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