Cat flea

This flea was kindly donated by my cat, Alfie!

This is the highest magnification I have attempted, the flea was about nearly 2mm in length, so the section of flea in this photo is less than 1mm. I like how the surface is semi-transparent making some of the internal structures visible.

This is a stack of 105 shots.

Bee wing

This is a section of the forewing of a mining bee, Andrena.

The image was taken with a reversed 50mm f/2.8 EL-Nikkor on bellows.

Bee mouthparts

These are the mouthparts of the cuckoo bee Nomada marshamella.

Image stacked from 98 photos which were taken with a Nikon N plan 10/0.30 objective on bellows.

Here is a crop showing more of the detail:

Bee tongue

This is the tongue of the Hairy footed flower bee Anthophora plumipes. The tongue of this bee is amazingly long (12-15mm) allowing it to reach the nectar of deep flowers. As well as collecting pollen from flowers, the hairs on the tongue help with the senses of taste amd smell, molecules pass through pores in the hairs where they are detected by sensory cells.

This image is a stack of 80 photos which were taken with my Nikon D300 using a Nikon N plan 10/0.30 objective on bellows.

Anthophora plumipes