Aphid

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micron
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Aphid

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Here is a picture of an aphid busily sucking the juices out of one of my wife’s plants. The image was taken with a Coolpix 4500 on a Leica M420. The magnification is around 30x.

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Hello Ron,

I'm not sure which side to be on - the aphids or Gwen's plants! I think I'll go with Gwen's side (still hoping for that Lietz logo scope cover.)

Actually very nice shot with theCP4500, good depth of field and excellent color rendition - what illumination did you use?

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Mike
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Hi Mike,

Thanks for the feedback.

I used a ringlight (reflected light) to illuminate the aphid. (So far diazanone has had little effect on these guys so Gwen's plants may lose the battle!)

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Post by discomorphella »

Hi Ron--

Nice shot of the little parasites...can see the larger one's drilling right in...I'm firmly on the side of the roses...what kind of mutant organophosphate-resistant aphids have you been breeding up there? If the Diazanon isn't working, maybe your next shot should be the aphid being made into a squash preparation....

--David

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