Extremely Interesting Extreme Closeups Of A Recently Deceased Grasshopper

in nature •  7 years ago 

So i have an electronic microscope and decided it would be cool to study one of my pet grasshoppers that had recently died of old age, he is about 20mm long but in the images you can see incredible detail. The following images are captured at around 35x magnification.

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The following images are captured at around 400x magnification (most images of this magnification are of lower quality as it is near impossible to get a perfect focus).

This is a section of one of its antenna:

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This is a section of one of its back legs:

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This is its mouth:

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The rest of the images are of its compound eye:

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Hope you liked the images and found it interesting

:P

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