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Wonderful World of Wasps

Exhibition Iziko South African Museum

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera)

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A high resolution video camera attached to the microscope lens takes a photograph of the specimen at each focal plane. These images are fed to a computer where the stacks of images (anywhere between 5 and 20 images depending on how small the specimen is) are combined into a single in focus image by a computer algorithm. This process results in a fully focused high magnification image of the specimen.

Photographs © Simon van Noort


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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