MarthasCatMug – SEM of a drain fly

The object I brought was a bug that I found out is actually a drain fly. They are super fuzzy and it was really cool to see how there were almost no surfaces, at any magnification, that did not have furry looking structures.

One place that was not fuzzy were the eyes, Donna explained to me that each individual ball is an eye and that the surface irregularities were actually an artifact of the fly being dried out.

Here is an image of the wing, due to the fly not being flat, a lot of the images ended up being of a very narrow depth of field.

You can see a bacteria on one of the fly’s feet! c: