Explore the fascinating world of bugs with the insecta microscope slide sets. With more than 1 million diverse species representing nearly 90% of multicellular life on Earth, insects offer a dizzying array of adaptations that include social behaviors, complex communication, metamorphic cycles and camouflaging mimicry that allow them to inhabit nearly all environments. Each slide set includes a full-color brochure with corresponding pictures.
Specifications
Insecta General Slide Set includes 25 microscope slides: • Apis mellifica, honey bee, anterior and posterior wings w.m. • Apis mellifica, honey bee, anterior leg with eye brush w.m. • Apis mellifica, honey bee, head with compound eyes and brain t.s. • Apis mellifica, honey bee, leaking sucking mouth parts of worker w.m. • Apis mellifica, honey bee, posterior leg with pollen basket w.m. • Apis mellifica, honey bee, sting and poison sac w.m. • Bombyx mori, silkworm moth, chewing mouth parts • Bombyx mori, silkworm moth, feathered antenna w.m. • Bombyx mori, silkworm moth, t.s. showing silk spinning glands • Carabus, ground beetle, biting mouth parts (carnivore) w.m. • Chironomus, gnat, w.m. of larva • Cornea isolated from insect eye w.m. • Ctenocephalus canis, dog flea, w.m. of adult • Culex pipiens, mosquito, piercing sucking mouth parts w.m. • Culex pipiens, mosquito, w.m. of larva • Drosophila, fruit fly, w.m. of adult • Melolontha, cockchafer, antenna with sense organs w.m. • Melolontha, cockchafer, chewing mouth parts (herbivore) w.m. • Musca domestica, housefly, leaking-sucking mouth parts w.m. • Musca domestica, house fly, leg with pulvilli w.m. • Pieris, butterfly, portion of wings with scales w.m. • Pieris, butterfly, sucking mouth parts w.m. • Pyrrhocoris, bug, piercing sucking mouth parts w.m. • Spiracle from insect w.m. • Trachea from insect w.m.