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Sympetrum, face, Beltsville, md
Sympetrum, face, Beltsville, md
Sympetrum, face, Beltsville, md

Collected a few days ago, I think this is Sympetrum vicinum, the autumn meadowhawk, but just am not sure. Beltsville, Maryland.Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Photographer: Sam Droege, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200

Collected a few days ago, I think this is Sympetrum vicinum, the autumn meadowhawk, but just am not sure. Beltsville, Maryland.Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Photographer: Sam Droege, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200

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Symplocarpus foetidus, skunk
Symplocarpus foetidus, skunk
Symplocarpus foetidus, skunk

ns, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200 USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.

ns, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200 USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.

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Symplocarpus foetidus,
Symplocarpus foetidus,
Symplocarpus foetidus,

Interplanetary alien space ship or spadix of Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus). You decide. Picture by Helen Lowe Metzman.

Interplanetary alien space ship or spadix of Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus). You decide. Picture by Helen Lowe Metzman.

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Syrphid Fly2, Face, MD, Beltsville
Syrphid Fly2, Face, MD, Beltsville
Syrphid Fly2, Face, MD, Beltsville

Unknown Syrphid fly from last fall. Beltsville, MD Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200, link to a .pdf of our set up is located in our profile

Unknown Syrphid fly from last fall. Beltsville, MD Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200, link to a .pdf of our set up is located in our profile

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Systropha
Systropha
Systropha

Sytyropha on white background. S. krigei to be specific from Kruger National Park in South Africa. This specimen was identified and photographed by Silas Bossert a bee researcher at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. They use similar systems to what we use, but prefer gray to white backgrounds, they are equally detailed.

Sytyropha on white background. S. krigei to be specific from Kruger National Park in South Africa. This specimen was identified and photographed by Silas Bossert a bee researcher at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. They use similar systems to what we use, but prefer gray to white backgrounds, they are equally detailed.

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Tachinidae, Fly with dye, Dominican Republic, U, side
Tachinidae, Fly with dye, Dominican Republic, U, side
Tachinidae, Fly with dye, Dominican Republic, U, side

Tachinid Fly from the Dominican Republic floating in hand sanitizer filled quartz cuvette, in which a thin film of blue food coloring was added to a black piece of plastic and inserted at the bottom of the cuvette and allowed to migrate upwards.

Tachinid Fly from the Dominican Republic floating in hand sanitizer filled quartz cuvette, in which a thin film of blue food coloring was added to a black piece of plastic and inserted at the bottom of the cuvette and allowed to migrate upwards.

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Tadpole
Tadpole
Tadpole

I am 80% sure this is a just hatched spring peeper tadpole. This is taken at 10x so it is very very tiny, the peepers are still calling and little else has started to breed or would be this small.

I am 80% sure this is a just hatched spring peeper tadpole. This is taken at 10x so it is very very tiny, the peepers are still calling and little else has started to breed or would be this small.

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Tarpela micans, U, Back, NC, Buncombie County
Tarpela micans, U, Back, NC, Buncombie County
Tarpela micans, U, Back, NC, Buncombie County

Collected , in Glycol trap, Tarpela micans, with lovely oil can sheen, identified by Warren Steiner