insects and Coffee

getting around to uploading some of my Insect photos from the trip to Mexico we took in December… and to getting some of my older photos off the old server and up on to Flickr.

Here is a great shot from June 30, 2007 >>>

<<< Potato Bug(Woodlouse), infested with Parasitic mites… these mites look(at this magnification) just like the Varroa Mites that are causing the Honey Bees of the world so much trouble.

Note: Not sure if I put this specimen in my freezer collection for further investigation. I’ll have to check, and if so bust out the microscope.

Update: I did not put this specimen in the deep freeze… kicking myself for not doing this, it would have been nice to get some micro-scope photos of these mites.

and here are some ant photos from Mexico… lapping up the water sweating from a Pina Colada >>>

<<< I need to get a better Macro Lens.

Tags: ants, macro lens, parasitic mites, rolly-polly, varroa mites

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