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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 Academy of Sciences identified this ant as a Linepithema humile. More information about this ant can be found in the following two links: http://www.antweb.org/description.do?rank=species&name=humile&genus=linepithema&project=worldants http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0006020&shot=p1&project=worldants |
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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 was hand-stitched from 143 SEM images using Adobe Photoshop. |
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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 added to the ant which was stitched by the gigapan stitcher. |
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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 (http://www.calacademy.org/science/heroes/bfisher/) an entomologist at the California Academy of Sciences. This Gigapan is part of the NanoGigaPan project. Which is working to take high resolution images of very small things. Read more on the project blog at http://nanogigapan.blogspot.com and see more of our work on the gigapan site at http://gigapan.org/profiles/mollyg For some optical images of this particular ant species, please visit ant web. http://www.antweb.org/description.do?rank=species&name=mocquerysi&genus=eutetramorium&project=madants |
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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 believe me, but the house we're staying at is actually really nice, and at least appears very clean). Lacking another container for putting samples into, we dropped the fly in with the live, albeit confused ants, saying "they probably wont eat it." Seconds after touching the bottom of the container, the ant you see here snatched the fly up and proceeded to hold on to it for not only the commute into the office, but also during a stint in the freezer, a move from the container to the SEM stage, and then while in a vacuum. That is dedication.
The ant and fly are magnified 400x and this image is composed of 288 pictures taken with the SEM. The ant is of the species Aphaenogaster occidentalis. You can see optical images of it on ant web. http://www.antweb.org/description.do?rank=species&name=occidentalis&genus=aphaenogaster&project=calants This Gigapan is part of the NanoGigaPan project. Which is working to take big pictures of small things. Read more on the project blog at http://nanogigapan.blogspot.com and see more of our work on the gigapan site at http://gigapan.org/profiles/mollyg" |
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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. http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0006020&shot=p1&project=worldants This Gigapan is part of the NanoGigaPan project. Which is working to take big pictures of small things. Read more on the project blog at http://nanogigapan.blogspot.com and see more of our work on the gigapan site at http://gigapan.org/profiles/mollyg" |
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This is 68 pictures of an ant taken with the Nanogigapan and stitched together. The ant is magnified 800x its usual size using a Scanning Electron Microscope. |
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head of af french ant |
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This is a head shot of the ant Eutetramorium mocquerysi which is found in Madagascar and is notable for having wingless queens that are indistinguishable from workers. This image is magnified 400x and is composed of 175 individual pictures. The ant was given to us to image by Brian Fisher (http://www.calacademy.org/science/heroes/bfisher/) an entomologist at the California Academy of Sciences. This Gigapan is part of the NanoGigaPan project. Which is working to take high resolution images of very small things. Read more on the project blog at http://nanogigapan.blogspot.com and see more of our work on the gigapan site at http://gigapan.org/profiles/mollyg For some optical images of this particular ant species, please visit ant web. http://www.antweb.org/description.do?rank=species&name=mocquerysi&genus=eutetramorium&project=madants |