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Subject: Re: [OM] Photobombing insect
From: Don Holbrook <donholbrook@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 15:07:29 -0400 (EDT)
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:
> 
> 
> 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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