"Painted ships upon a painted ocean."
A scattered line of covers of what is believed to be pupating whitefly: Aleurocanthus spiniferus (orange spiny whitefly) on a coconut palm leaf isolated by limited depth of field. Each tower of at least two discarded upper covers is under 1 mm in height. Eggs are scattered about on the leaf. Note the inverted image in the water droplet and the tenuous if-at-all attachment of the lower occupied covers (that are closed below) to the leaf.
I spend a lot of time trying to photograph things that are too small for me. More magnification would just lead to the same behavior at the next lower level. I will just have to put up with the challenge. The macro world is teeming with surprise. In this case it is the gay abandon of the one on the left, bouncing clear of the "water" that I really like.
It was a dry afternoon. More humid conditions would have condensed small drops of water close to the tip of each spine. As it is, only one larger accumulation remains. The larger the drop the slower the evaporation because the radius reduces by the same numerical amount per hour. Small drops disappear at a faster rate.
"Painted ships upon a painted ocean."
A scattered line of covers of what is believed to be pupating whitefly: Aleurocanthus spiniferus (orange spiny whitefly) on a coconut palm leaf isolated by limited depth of field. Each tower of at least two discarded upper covers is under 1 mm in height. Eggs are scattered about on the leaf. Note the inverted image in the water droplet and the tenuous if-at-all attachment of the lower occupied covers (that are closed below) to the leaf.
I spend a lot of time trying to photograph things that are too small for me. More magnification would just lead to the same behavior at the next lower level. I will just have to put up with the challenge. The macro world is teeming with surprise. In this case it is the gay abandon of the one on the left, bouncing clear of the "water" that I really like.
It was a dry afternoon. More humid conditions would have condensed small drops of water close to the tip of each spine. As it is, only one larger accumulation remains. The larger the drop the slower the evaporation because the radius reduces by the same numerical amount per hour. Small drops disappear at a faster rate.