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Mite, ventral-lateral head - Varroa destructor - female

Mite, ventral-lateral head - Varroa destructor - Female
Santa Fe National Forest, San Miguel County, New Mexico, USA
April 4, 2017
Size: 1.13 mm BL
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This image is from a Helicon Focus processed stack of 395 images with a 0.8 µm step taken with a Nikon BD Plan Apo 40×/0.80 210/0 mm microscope objective + adapter/extension tube + Nikon D810 camera.

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