Trying a new stitch... and since I may have been a bit too optimistic about how low I can go with the settings, automatic feature detection is struggling - At 80x I usually scan with a step size of 0.3mm and lots of overlap, but then I would be in for ten days of scanning. This attempt is with 0.6mm which works for 40x. Just enough overlap here, but to match features between neighboring images is difficult even for me.

So I loaded the panorama in grid mode -fixed control points where I know the images overlap - which gave me some new insight into compound eyes. Now I wonder if the wasps run #ptgui or #hugin in their heads...

Aglaostigma aucupariae, the red belted cleaver, a sawfly.

Here is the "regular" macro shot, for comparison:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/360981049

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Young Beauty on a Leaf.

If I'm not mistaken, this is a locust sawfly (Euura tibialis).

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Bon, il est 4h du mat' ici alors j'envoie du sexe : deux tabac d'Espagne, en Estonie (Argynnis paphia).

Deuxième image : ceci n'est pas une chenille ! C'est une larve de "mouche à scie" https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphyta, une tenthrède… bref, tu vois le genre : Tenthredo (c'est le genre). Astuce : en plus des 6 pattes, les chenilles ont maximum 2×5 "ventouses". Les fausses chenilles en ont 2×6.

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