Focus Stacked More Mandibles: This is my preserved Darkling Beetle that I staged for a focus stacking session to showcase its face, mandibles and other mouthparts. Darkling beetles are...

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Mar 9, 2021 21:05:37 #

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

This is my preserved Darkling Beetle that I staged for a focus stacking session to showcase its face, mandibles and other mouthparts.

Darkling beetles are quite beneficial and they eat both fresh and decaying vegetation. They are a food source for birds, rodents and lizards so they play an important part in the food chain.

The larval stages of several species are cultured as feeder insects for captive insectivores and include the very commonly known ‘mealworms’ and ‘superworms’ and the lesser-known ‘mini mealworms’. They are available at nearly all pet stores and many raise them for a food source for their insect eating collection of pets.

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Mar 9, 2021 21:16:42 #

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Excellent.

Mar 9, 2021 21:27:38 #

Jay Drew Loc: Boise, Id.

Love the top lighting

Mar 9, 2021 21:27:51 #

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Longshadow wrote:

Excellent.

Thanks ever so much.

Mar 9, 2021 21:32:45 #

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Jay Drew wrote:

Love the top lighting

Thanks, Jay. I've been experimenting with my illumination the past few days which spurs me to post my progress. I use three LED desk lamps and I place a vellum tracing paper lens hood onto the lens and a short hood over the end of the lens itself to block all light except from straight on. I put the subject in "blinders" like one would put on a horse, again to block all light except that through the vellum which is soft as that of an overcast day.

Mar 9, 2021 22:43:58 #