Tonight’s mystery is an extremely close look at somebody’s fur coat:
Which of the organisms below is the one depicted at high magnification in the micrograph?
The first person to pick the correct species from the list gets 5 points for the number, and 5 for the genus. Each person is allowed only one guess. The cumulative points winner for the month of March will win their choice of:
1) A guest post here on Myrmecos
2) Any 8×10 print from my insect photography galleries
3) A myrmecos t-shirt
Good luck!
My guess is number 5. (Based on these: http://webspace.ship.edu/gspaul/SEM%20of%20Aranea.html)
Will post my genus guess separately, though I already have an idea.
I just realized that 5 wasn’t the only spider… Should have checked once more! My genus guess is Loxosceles.
Good question! Branched hairs suggest bees, but not as feathery as the bees I’ve SEMed. Mutillid?
Number 1, guess genus: Loxosceles
I’m fairly certain that’s the correct guess: http://www.freestockphotos.biz/stockphoto/15841 🙂
Number 1: Loxosceles for genus, reclusa for species?
I think that this is the original photograph: http://www.freestockphotos.biz/stockphoto/15841
by CDC/Leah Lowrey, Michael Smith of a brown recluse spider.
I feel like it has to be #4 based purely on my recent viewing of The Fly.
Tachinidae? That’s a family. I got nothing.
Six, a Mutillidae?
3 – semi-plumose hairs of a bee.
My guess is 4.
7
#5 is Phidipus audix.
phidippus audax
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