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Small Wonders

Insects and spiders (+ some other critters) close up
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  • Redbud leaffolder showing the loose intersegmental integument that allows for the larva to violently wiggle laterally to frighten away predators.  The black and white stripes add to the dramatic display.  check
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  • Ventral view of the head of a male mayfly showing the 7 eye structures - 3 simple eyes (white), 2 compound eyes (black), and 2 turbinate eyes (burnt orange) used to ID females when they enter a swarm of male flies. check
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  • One of a pair of club-shaped halters.  These have evolved from the second pair of wings and are used to help balance the fly in flight.
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  • Two bugs hatching from barrel-shaped eggs deposited on a holly leaf adjacent to the main vein.  The bugs rock back & forth dorso-ventrally like you pull the cork from a champaign bottle.  Upon hatch each nymph is already twice as long as the egg it came from.
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