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Coelidiana colens,f, peru, j gonzales

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Fluorescent Leafhopper, Coelidiana colens, from Peru. Just grabbed this tiny leafhopper from the Natural History Museum at random to play with some 10x shots...would have liked to have shot this one with a fresh specimen. Photography Information: Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 200mm Pentax-m with Nikon 10X infinity microscope objective lens mounted on front , Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.6, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200.USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.

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Public Domain.