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Wasp inside an Electron Microscope
Common Hoverfly Parasitoid Wasps! Today we're looking at a wasp I found in my backyard. This little insect lays its eggs inside of other hosts (hoverflys), which consumes the hoverfly larva from the ...
Scientific American28d
Nanotech Scientists Build on an Insect’s Odd Soccer-Ball-Like Excretions to Design Ingenious Camouflage
In the early 1950s biologists at Brooklyn College were using an electron microscope to pursue a lead that the leafhopper, a common insect that ... appeared identical under visible light, they ...
Spiders ‘smell’ with their legs – new research
In a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we demonstrated that male spiders use olfactory ...
Nature6d
Sensory Structures and Mouthpart Morphology in Hemipteran Insects
Another study focused on the trichoideum sensillum in the insect Nabis rugosus, where researchers utilized scanning and transmission electron microscopy to explore the mechanical functions and ...
Nanowerk1y
Introduction to Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM)
Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) has revolutionized the realm of microscopic analysis. By delivering astonishingly detailed images of minuscule entities such as insects ... sample stability and ...