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Parasitic mite larva on weevil, lateral - Leptus
Copyright © 2012 Edward L. Ruden

Parasitic mite larva on weevil, lateral - Leptus
Sandia Mountains, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA
September 2, 2012
Size: 0.61 mm body
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This image is from a CombineZP processed stack of 270 images with a 2.7 µm step taken with a Mitutoyo BD Plan APO 20X/0.42 microscope objective + Nikon 300 mm F4 AF ED IF macro lens + Nikon D300 camera (magnification 30X; technique described here).

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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 8 September, 2012 - 9:16pm
Last updated 9 September, 2012 - 12:01am

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