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May 26, 2023 16:29:51   #
sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri
 
SueScott wrote:
Really neat images but did you have that nymph tested for lymes since it was obviously bloated with your blood! I hate ticks worse than stink bugs and that's saying a lot!


Thanks, Sue. I can collect stink bugs by the bushel.

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May 26, 2023 17:26:54   #
Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis
 
sippyjug104 wrote:
This is a focused stacked image of a tick nymph that found its way to my inner thigh. As I aged, my body acquired many little moles and small spots. I thought it was odd that one of them was starting to itch and that I could flick it with my fingernail. Of course, it was a rat-bastard little tick. Never letting an opportunity go to waste, I picked it off and placed it in alcohol for preservation.

The second image shows its size in comparison to a dime where you can see that its entire body is about the size of Roosevelt's ear.

Tick nymphs cannot mature into an adult until they feed and then they can molt and grow larger and produce an additional set of legs (born with six and mature with eight...how weird is that?).

The appendages on the left and right side are the palps that cover the barbed hypostome. The tip is referred to as the corona. It is what this little rat bastard used to attach itself to my thigh and suck on me. "Revenge is mine, saithe Sippy!"
This is a focused stacked image of a tick nymph th... (show quote)


Fantastic images!!!

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May 26, 2023 17:43:48   #
CWS Loc: El Paso, TX
 
The things you do just to get a good specimen to preform your magic on is just crazy. Fantastic shot!

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May 26, 2023 18:25:14   #
sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri
 
CWS wrote:
The things you do just to get a good specimen to preform your magic on is just crazy. Fantastic shot!


CWS, If the mountain will not come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain. In this case, the tick came to me!

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May 26, 2023 18:26:25   #
sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri
 
Manglesphoto wrote:
Fantastic images!!!


Thanks, Manglesphoto.

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May 26, 2023 20:32:42   #
JeffDavidson Loc: Originally Detroit Now Los Angeles
 
Another WOW!

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May 26, 2023 21:35:52   #
sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri
 
JeffDavidson wrote:
Another WOW!


Thanks, Jeff. A truly horrifying creature providing an interesting study.

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May 26, 2023 22:43:00   #
ruzbynik Loc: Victoria BC
 
Awesome mugshot. Have you ever done a mosquito?

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May 26, 2023 23:11:12   #
CindyHouk Loc: Nw MT
 
Amazing Sippy....I have had those dang things attach to me as well...they sure do give me the creeps!!

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May 27, 2023 00:16:20   #
kbk
 
What lens and camera did you use?
Settings?

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May 27, 2023 09:39:43   #
sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri
 
ruzbynik wrote:
Awesome mugshot. Have you ever done a mosquito?


Thanks, Ruzbynik. I've shot a few midges, however, after I swat the mosquito there's not much left of them

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May 27, 2023 09:41:40   #
sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri
 
CindyHouk wrote:
Amazing Sippy....I have had those dang things attach to me as well...they sure do give me the creeps!!


Thanks, Cindy. I believe that they are the spawn of Satan that have crawled up through the bowels of the earth to torment warm-blooded life on earth.

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May 27, 2023 09:50:15   #
CindyHouk Loc: Nw MT
 
sippyjug104 wrote:
Thanks, Cindy. I believe that they are the spawn of Satan that have crawled up through the bowels of the earth to torment warm-blooded life on earth.


I agree!

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May 27, 2023 09:58:24   #
sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri
 
kbk wrote:
What lens and camera did you use?
Settings?


Kbk, thanks for asking. The camera is a Fujifilm X-T20 that is attached to a bellows and mounted on a digital motorized focus rail I control the distance of camera travel and the number of shots it takes in a session with a laptop computer.

The optic used for this session is a Mitutoyo M Plan APO 10X microscope objective. I use a Raynox DCR-150 as the tube lens for the infinity microscope objective.

Microscope objectives do not have aperture adjustments in the way camera lenses do so they are used "wide open". The "Numerical Aperture" (NA) of this Mitutoyo 10X objective is 0.28. The depth of field is so shallow that only a tip of a hair is in sharp focus. The depth of field for this objective is 3.5 microns (0.0035 millimeters). Shutter speed is based on the brightness of the subject which most often is in the one-second range. Most sessions consist of several hundred to many hundreds shots taken. These images are processed in a dedicated focus stacking program to produce one final image.

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May 27, 2023 19:26:54   #
Bubalola Loc: Big Apple, NY
 
sippyjug104 wrote:
This is a focused stacked image of a tick nymph that found its way to my inner thigh. As I aged, my body acquired many little moles and small spots. I thought it was odd that one of them was starting to itch and that I could flick it with my fingernail. Of course, it was a rat-bastard little tick. Never letting an opportunity go to waste, I picked it off and placed it in alcohol for preservation.

The second image shows its size in comparison to a dime where you can see that its entire body is about the size of Roosevelt's ear.

Tick nymphs cannot mature into an adult until they feed and then they can molt and grow larger and produce an additional set of legs (born with six and mature with eight...how weird is that?).

The appendages on the left and right side are the palps that cover the barbed hypostome. The tip is referred to as the corona. It is what this little rat bastard used to attach itself to my thigh and suck on me. "Revenge is mine, saithe Sippy!"
This is a focused stacked image of a tick nymph th... (show quote)


Great one, Gary!

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