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Serious flooding at Moor Copse

by ChrisRPosted onMarch 31, 2013August 4, 2020

Stopped in at Moor Copse on the way home today to check out how high the river is. Well, the answer is – VERY! Tidmarsh…

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Some nice Venezuelan tachinids

by ChrisRPosted onDecember 1, 2012August 4, 2020

Just had time to look at a box of Venezuelan tachinids sent to me by my good friend Jose Manuel Ayala. There are plenty of…

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Cretan and Dutch tachinids

by ChrisRPosted onJune 16, 2012June 16, 2012

Today I will be working on a nice little batch of tachinids sent to me my Ruud van der Weele and collected by him in…

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More Romanian tachinids

by ChrisRPosted onJune 2, 2012June 7, 2012

Here are the last of Alexandru’s batch of Romanian tachinids, caught in 2010. They spent a long time in alcohol so they are not in…

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Dinocampus coccinellae at Hartslock

by ChrisRPosted onMay 23, 2012May 23, 2012

Last weekend, on a quick (and rather cold) trip to Hartslock, I discovered a 7-spot ladybird that had been attacked by Dinocampus coccinellae, a parasitic wasp.…

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New Forest – May 12th

by ChrisRPosted onMay 13, 2012May 14, 2012

Here are some photos from the Dipterist’s Forum Spring field meeting to Denny Wood in the New Forest.

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Something from Yves

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 29, 2012March 4, 2012

This week has been a good one for deliveries – today I received a parcel from my friend Yves. This is part of a batch…

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A Venezuelan delivery…

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 29, 2012February 29, 2012

This week I have been working on a batch of Venezuelan tachinids, kindly sent to me by Manuel Ayala (see right). They are a lovely…

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A new objective – Lomo 8x 0.20

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 20, 2012February 3, 2015

Received a nice little Russian microscope objective today from Haworthiaworld on eBay – a Lomo 8x 0.20 finite (I assume 160/-). I wasn’t expecting much…

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Morphos

by ChrisRPosted onJanuary 19, 2012February 3, 2015

As a quick follow-up to the “More butterfly wings…” post I thought you might like to see full-sized images of the butterflies used in the…

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More butterfly wings…

by ChrisRPosted onJanuary 13, 2012February 3, 2015

I got an unexpected “gift” the other day of a Melles Griot 16x/0.32 160/0.17 microscope objective lens. I had ordered the 10x version (which is…

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Christmas in Dorset

by ChrisRPosted onDecember 30, 2011December 30, 2011

Have just come back from a lovely, relaxing trip to my parent’s for Christmas … lots of chatting, eating and (a little) drinking, all in…

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Butterfly wings

by ChrisRPosted onDecember 6, 2011January 13, 2012

One of the standard ways to test a macro photography set-up is to photograph a butterfly’s wing and then show the image as a crop…

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Fly genitalia stacks

by ChrisRPosted onNovember 15, 2011February 3, 2015

Here are a few stacks of various fly genitalia – taken at 4x magnification using the Schneider Componon 35mm f4 lens.

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Some Neotropical Siphonini

by ChrisRPosted onNovember 12, 2011November 14, 2011

Today I went through some of the specimens in my World collection that had been labelled under the siphonine genera (Actia, Borgmeiermyia, Ceromya, Pseudosiphona etc.).…

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A stalk-eyed fly (Diopsidae)

by ChrisRPosted onNovember 11, 2011November 11, 2011

Here is a stalk-eyed fly from Western Malaysia, taken at about 3x magnification. The equipment was Canon 1000D + Schneider Componon 35mm f4 lens reversed…

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A few ultra-close shots of tiny tachinids!

by ChrisRPosted onNovember 8, 2011November 8, 2011

It’s not often that you get this close to the very rare and tiny Microsoma exiguum (3mm), Cinochira atra (2mm) & Catharosia pygmaea (4-5mm). I…

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Some more stacking …

by ChrisRPosted onOctober 25, 2011October 26, 2011

Here are a few Pelecotheca (Cryptocladocera) sp. stacks. The technique involves taking about 30 photos, each at a different focal point in the specimen and…

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Science Uncovered!

by ChrisRPosted onSeptember 26, 2011September 26, 2011

Last Friday I had the pleasure of helping out at the Natural History Museum’s yearly “Science Uncovered” event. For one evening the museum opens its…

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Swyncombe Down

by ChrisRPosted onSeptember 14, 2011September 15, 2011

Just a few photos from a quick “recon” visit to Swyncombe Down with Rod d’Ayala, ahead of our guided walk for the Reading & District…

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