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Head dress

This is a male midge (Chironomid) with the usual big head dress of its antenna. However its the little pear shaped eye I am rather taken by, together with all those intricate structures that keep it aflight.

 

Tiny little things, they are, but very interesting up close.

 

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Uploaded on May 13, 2009
Taken on May 9, 2009