Brachypelma

Brachypelma

Saturday 31 December 2016

Empty Eyes

One of my current longings is for better equipment and the skill to take really great pictures of insects and arachnids. Despite my lack of equipment and skill, I managed to take a picture of an exoskeleton from my newly molted Heteropoda boiei spider using my crappy old camera pressed against the eyepiece of my very small, inexpensive (but surprisingly nice) dissecting microscope. The result was quite decent.  I love the empty eyes left behind when arachnids molt.

Edit:  The next molt I got some more pictures like this, even better ones.






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