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Studio stack: You know the drill?

You are looking at the gruesome mouthparts of a female tick, Ixodes ricinus.

 

This is a ventral view – just as your skin sees it when it's about to get pierced ;-)

 

Shot at 20:1 magnification and stacked from 132 exposures in Zerene Stacker. Lens: Nikon BD M Plan 20x 0.4 ELWD, microscope objective

 

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Uploaded on May 13, 2010
Taken on May 13, 2010