This picture is of Empididae 1 captured in the Sheffield area of South Yorkshire UK
By general sweeping Nr Kettle Bridge, Darnall Sheffield SK3887 12.5.2002. These thumbnails open into larger pictures which were made by combining several photographs.
I just took a series of pictures of a fresh specamin, to try to combine them into one picture, but the specimen moved, the eyes collapsed, the proboscis moved back and the legs and head moved a bit. Does anyone know how to prevent this from happening for about 10 minutes while I take the pictures?
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The best picture I could get from the data.
This picture is of Empididae 1 captured in the Sheffield area of South Yorkshire UK
The picture generated by my program.
Since taking these pictures I have experimented with freezing the insects to keep them fresh looking until I am ready to take pictures, and it seems to work OK.