Here are some shots from my training session this morning at the Beckman Institute's Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). I haven't used SEM for years- wow! Great fun. Click on each image to enlarge.
For contrast, here's a photo of a wasp in the same genus taken with my standard Canon macro gear:
We'll be deciding over the coming months which type of images to use for our project. As you can see, there are some advantages to the SEM: crisp, clean images that give much better detail about the the structure of the insect. But there are drawbacks as well. SEMs don't look very much like what people see under a regular microscope, they lack color, and they are expensive. Hmmm...
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SEM photos are awesome, but I vote for the Canon 20D dSLR & macro lens.