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Jul 25, 2021 13:42:28   #
sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri
 
Holy Cow..!! Somethings simply cannot be seen with the unaided eye and this is truly one of them. Sometimes things come easy and this Longhorn Beetle came in the door last night and was crawling about on the wall...well, that did not work out well for it with my ever handy pill bottles.

I staged it for a session this morning and I was shocked to see how infested with mites it was. They had to be driving it crazy for I know how uncomfortable it is when chiggers get on me. Oh well, at least it is at peace now.


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Jul 25, 2021 13:44:19   #
Cwilson341 Loc: Central Florida
 
sippyjug104 wrote:
Holy Cow..!! Somethings simply cannot be seen with the unaided eye and this is truly one of them. Sometimes things come easy and this Longhorn Beetle came in the door last night and was crawling about on the wall...well, that did not work out well for it with my ever handy pill bottles.

I staged it for a session this morning and I was shocked to see how infested with mites it was. They had to be driving it crazy for I know how uncomfortable it is when chiggers get on me. Oh well, at least it is at peace now.
Holy Cow..!! Somethings simply cannot be seen wit... (show quote)


The stuff of horror movies! Excellent shot, impressive detail!

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Jul 25, 2021 13:46:56   #
sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri
 
Cwilson341 wrote:
The stuff of horror movies! Excellent shot, impressive detail!


Thanks, Carol. It made me itch when I first seen it.

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Jul 25, 2021 14:23:03   #
JeffDavidson Loc: Originally Detroit Now Los Angeles
 
Beautifully photographed.

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Jul 25, 2021 15:07:01   #
tramsey Loc: Texas
 
As you have so aptly demonstrated many times, the insect world is a very cruel, vicious world - But it gives you great subjects - Excellent shot

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Jul 25, 2021 15:10:20   #
Quixdraw Loc: x
 
Remarkable yet again! if you haven't come across this, it might amuse.

Siphonaptera" is a name used[1] to refer to the following rhyme by Augustus De Morgan (Siphonaptera being the biological order to which fleas belong):

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.[2]

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Jul 25, 2021 16:19:19   #
kpmac Loc: Ragley, La
 
They just get better and better, sippy.

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Jul 25, 2021 16:29:05   #
sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri
 
JeffDavidson wrote:
Beautifully photographed.


Thanks, Jeff. I appreciate your stopping by.

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Jul 25, 2021 16:29:47   #
sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri
 
tramsey wrote:
As you have so aptly demonstrated many times, the insect world is a very cruel, vicious world - But it gives you great subjects - Excellent shot


Thanks, Tramsey. It is truly a "bug eat bug" world.

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Jul 25, 2021 16:31:14   #
sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri
 
quixdraw wrote:
Remarkable yet again! if you haven't come across this, it might amuse.

Siphonaptera" is a name used[1] to refer to the following rhyme by Augustus De Morgan (Siphonaptera being the biological order to which fleas belong):

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.[2]
Remarkable yet again! if you haven't come across t... (show quote)


Thanks, Quixdraw. I have not seen this before and of course it is quite fitting so thanks for sharing it with me.

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Jul 25, 2021 16:33:32   #
sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri
 
kpmac wrote:
They just get better and better, sippy.


Thanks, Kpmac. Unfortunately, it gives me the heebie-jeebies and I'm sure that I'll feel like they will be crawling on me all night.

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Jul 25, 2021 17:48:33   #
Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona
 
Nice Sippy

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Jul 26, 2021 08:24:40   #
ecobin Loc: Paoli, PA
 
Now you might stage a mite!
Great stack, Gary!!

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Jul 26, 2021 09:49:07   #
sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri
 
Curmudgeon wrote:
Nice Sippy


Curmudgeon, thanks for viewing.

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Jul 26, 2021 09:52:25   #
sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri
 
ecobin wrote:
Now you might stage a mite!
Great stack, Gary!!


Elliott, I have the beetle with its mites preserved now and I can go up to 20X with my rig although I'd have to think about how to get something that I can't even see staged for the camera. I'd likely need to scrape them onto a microscope slide.

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