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This is the first proper nano-gigapan using the a modified gigapan unit attached to a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The image was then assembled was then stitched using the gigapan stitching software. The image is of an ants head at 1000X magnification. Brian Fisher, the chair of entomology at the California A...
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- Ant by Chris Bartley
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This is an ant, as seen through a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The SEM images were taken by Janet Steven and Gabriel Lane on an AMRAY 1810 scanning electron microscope at Sweet Briar College. The specimen was sputter-coated for 60 sec with Au/Pd at 50 mTorr and 40 mamp. Imaging was done at 3 KV. This panorama w...
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- Ant by Molly Gibson
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This is a 136 images of a whole ant (the head of which was imaged before by Jay) taken using the nanogigapn unit. It is magnified 800x using a Scanning Electron Microscope. The Antennas were not part of the original gigapan, and were taken by hand, they are made of 16 pictures and were put together in photoshop and a...
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This ant is from Madagascar, and is named Eutetramorium mocquerysi. The species is notable for having wingless queens that are indistinguishable from workers. This image is composed of 400 pictures, and it's magnified 400x using a scanning electron microscope. The ant was given to us to image by Brian Fisher (htt...
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fourmi des Pyrenees Orientales
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This is an SEM Nano Gigapan of an ant holding a fly in its mandible. This image came about when we found some ants this morning in the kitchen and decided to take them into work to image. While looking for other cool things to image I also stumbled across a very small fly that was dead on the table (you might not bel...
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- Ant by Molly Gibson
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This is a SEM Nano Gigapan of an ant we found outside of the office. It stitched a little strange and so I have delayed posting it for over a week. It is of the species Linepithema humile. You can see optical images of it on ant web. www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0006020&shot=p1&project=wo
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This is another ant given to us to image by Brian Fisher (www.calacademy.org/science/heroes/bfisher
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This Gigapan is part of the NanoGigaP...-
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This is an image of an ant holding a fly taken through an optical microscope magnified ~40x. It is a 24 image mosaic with some focus stacking. This is the same ant and fly that I have imaged using a SEM last summer, you can see that image here: gigapan.org/gigapans/28295/ In the SEM image the ant and fly a...
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This is a SEM nano gigapan of an ant of the species Aphaenogaster occidentalis. You can see optical images of it on ant web. www.antweb.org/description.do?rank=species&name=occidentalis&genus=aphaenogaster&project=calants
This is a head shot, and is composed of 80 pictures. The ant is magnified 500...-
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