Showing posts with label scales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scales. Show all posts

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Butterfly Wings


Butterfly wings are clear! Under the layers of scales on each side of the wing is a clear membrane, like other insects' wings. In the photo below, one can clearly see the wing scales on the other side of the wing through this clear membrane.







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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Fly Me to the Moon, or Right Into a Lightbulb, if You're a Moth

And here come the creepier crawlers!

Above is the face of a moth. This was a rather small moth, actually. A larger moth would have had a larger head with more "feathers" and bigger eyes. However, I am happy with this shot anyway, because it's pretty much in sharp focus. Which is hard for such a tiny thing.

In other tiny-things-in-sharp-focus news, below is some sort of fly on a leaf. Maybe I'll find it's actually a bee and have to correct it like my last post.

One interesting detail I noticed is the little fly feet. I guess I've never seen or noticed what fly feet look like. Take a look at them, they're two little claw things, and two sticky pads. This particular fly appears to be missing the claw/pads on its left middle leg.
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