Thanks for looking, Steve.

........the only thing I can think of to enable a short stack, would be to have kept the eggs in the fridge whilst waiting for the hatch to start, in some attempt to slow things down a bit.....
I'm not sure of that, though!

Roger.

Found an adult few days back & put her (as it turned out!) in clear plastic pot for later inspection.
On next looking, there were eggs, on stalks!
Kept an eye on them & there were subtle changes in the eggs' appearance, sort of stripey.....

Then, hatching began!
No chance of stacking, activity much too frantic to escape the egg cases.

Anyway, some images.....


An egg, a stack of 21 images from my K5, 200mm f4M with Schneider Componon 50mm f2.8 S reversed. All on Pentax bellows at full extension.
(as all on the post)













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....& for scale, a shot of a scale rule sowing a little over 2 mm., at the same scale as the images.

Thanks, that would be most interesting, for use with my macro work!

Coker.

.....or, the red lily beetle.






Eating the lilies in a garden near you now!

thanks for looking,

Roger.

Thanks all, you're most kind!

Roger.

One of a brood of spiderlings.





Reversed Schneider Componon S f2.8 50mm. enlarger lens on a Tamron F tele converter & 42 mm. of ext. tubes.

Handheld @ f11, stack of 10 exposures in Combine ZP, Elements 11.

Thanks for looking,

Roger.

Nice one, Steve!

Roger.

Thanks, all, for your kind remarks.

This creature holds its head, eyes & antennae quite "tucked-in" to & under, its thorax, so an image showing these would be quite a different view.
In death, its legs all crumple up together & consequently don't show in this picture.


(And, it's frit!)

Roger.

Varied Carpet Beetle, 3 pollen grains.
Little less than 2mm long.






K5, reversed 50 f1.7 on 200 f4, both M.
Stack of 27, Combine ZP.
Elements 11

Yes.

What I said.

Magic!


Thanks all for looking,

Roger.