Non-Insect Macros: This is a conjoined acorn caps that I found during a recent walk through the woods and a seed from a Milkweed pod that I found in the field. I posted them in the...

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

This is a conjoined acorn caps that I found during a recent walk through the woods and a seed from a Milkweed pod that I found in the field. I posted them in the other forms and I thought that I would post them here as well for some follow some but not others.

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JeffDavidson Loc: Originally Detroit Now Los Angeles

Very nice.

jaredjacobson

sippyjug104 wrote:

This is a conjoined acorn caps that I found during a recent walk through the woods and a seed from a Milkweed pod that I found in the field. I posted them in the other forms and I thought that I would post them here as well for some follow some but not others.

Love the milkweed pod. Did you slice the seed to see the structure, or is that just what they look like?

My son's doing a home biology class for school this year. It's really interesting to contrast what we see through his microscope to what I see in your images. Your images are more compelling and often more detailed, with views we couldn't see through the microscope.

ecobin Loc: Paoli, PA

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sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

JeffDavidson wrote:

Very nice.

Thanks for dropping by.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

jaredjacobson wrote:

Love the milkweed pod. Did you slice the seed to see the structure, or is that just what they look like?

My son's doing a home biology class for school this year. It's really interesting to contrast what we see through his microscope to what I see in your images. Your images are more compelling and often more detailed, with views we couldn't see through the microscope.

Thanks ever so much. The seed is flat and very, very thin. Almost see-through thin. Nature designed the seed to be as weightless as possible so that a breeze would carry it away to its new destination much in the way that a Dandelion seed gets carried away.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

ecobin wrote:

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Thanks, Elliott. I appreciate the reply.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

I love them both. Well done sir.

Dennis

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

dennis2146 wrote:

I love them both. Well done sir.

Dennis

Thanks for viewing and for the reply.

Tinkwmobile

Nice, not a fan of bugs. These are great.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Tinkwmobile wrote:

Nice, not a fan of bugs. These are great.

Thanks, and I surely understand that viewing my insect images is not for everyone.

tinusbum Loc: east texas

sippyjug104 wrote:

Thanks, and I surely understand that viewing my insect images is not for everyone.

of course your insect images are for everyone,you have the best stacks

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

tinusbum wrote:

of course your insect images are for everyone,you have the best stacks

Thanks, Tinusbum and best wishes to you and yours. Looking through the lens at specimens is my joy and passion and sharing them with others is the greatest part of them. I know very little about entomology however as a retired mechanical system designer I am fascinated with the complexity and specialization of their evolution. Robotics pales at what Mother Nature has produced.