Tonight's mystery* takes us down into the magical world of scanning electron microscopy.
Five points for picking the organism and five for picking the structure. As usual, only the first correct answer in each category collects the points.
The cumulative points winner for the month of April gets to choose either 1) any 8x10 print from my photo galleries, or 2) a slot as a Myrmecos guest blogger on a safe-for-work topic of their choosing.
*Image by the lovely Jo-anne Holley
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An extended ariolium from Oecophylla???
I'll change my answer one more time: an arolium of Temnothorax albipennis??
A butterfly foot.
Acromyrmex sp.
it's a beetle hind leg
A fly foot?
Dragonfly leg?
Mouthparts of a fly, possibly musca domestica.
It`s a leg of a wasp.
It's an empodium?
It is an upside-down shot of a pretarsus. The largest structure is the middle is the arolium.
Definitively not an ant. I'll go for Braconidae.
Definitely the foot of some sort of insect... I would guess because the foot seems kind of flat and broad that its a water strider.
I'm thinking more the foot of a spider. I'm a total amateur and don't know the anatomy terms, but the hooks at the end of the foot look very much like the hooks at the end of a spider's foot.
Or is it always insects?