We just recieved a two new colonies of Temnothorax ants for our lab. These pose new problems for us as they are only about a tenth the size of the ants in our Aphaenogaster colony. Entire colonies of this sort of ant can live inside an acorn. To image them properly, we are using a new Canon 100mm L series Macro lens and, on the recommendation of amazing ant photographer, Alex Wild, decided on using fiber optic microscope lighting (lighting not shown below).
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