Image of the Week - 18 November 1999

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Antenna of a House Caterpillar

Image acquired by Scott Robinson using the ESEM in high vac mode. This is a 6500x magnification of a spot on the antenna of a house caterpillar. The diameter of the white filament near the base is ~2µm. The specimen was prepared normally in a gold-palladium coating.

Image Courtesy: Bug: Benjamin Grosser. Image: Scott J. Robinson.

Contact: grosser@itg.uiuc.edu, sjrobin@itg.uiuc.edu

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