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Anthrenus lepidus

Anthrenus lepidus
Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
March 10, 2011
Size: 3.6 mm
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I found this carpet beetle in my house crawling on the wall (where they are easiest to spot). I've submitted it primarily to present the accompanying high magnification image of its facinating scales.

This (full view) image is derived from a stack of 65 images with a 40 micron increment taken with a reversed Focotar-2 enlarging lens set to F/5.6 + bellows + Nikon D300 camera, and processed with CombineZP software.

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Amazing!
Thanks for posting.

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