SmugMug > keywords > cockroach > Encyrtid wasp, Comperia merceti, emerging from a parasitized cockroach egg case.  Laboratory colony at the University of Arizona.

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SmugMug > keywords > cockroach > Thanx for the nice welcome to your community yesterday.

Oh to be on the road...

Dedicated to The Twelve Girls Band, Peoples Republic of China - these girls rock...

inanga
SmugMug > keywords > cockroach > Joining a SmugMug Community

Thank you for accepting me,,, fellow Smuggers and 'european travelers'. Lace up your Hi-techs, fasten up your Lowe packs, put your Leica carefully in your day bag, grab that map of..., check to see you have your credit card, where's that photocopy of essential passport pages - your day begins. Image after image, moment after moment - oh, to be on the road.

inanga
SmugMug > keywords > cockroach > Pitagliano - mfnw

This is a big Ta (Thank You) to mfnw for keeping this dream alive. You are not the Cockroach that they know you by in the ACNZ. I am Nobody and you are Somebody from Nowhere.

paintings by inanga

collage courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

inanga
SmugMug > keywords > cockroach > A newly-molted German cockroach showing the brown head at the bottom of the image.  Because it has just molted, most of the integument has yet to darken.   As a result, you can see the structures within the body.  In this image, side lighting highlights the trachael system, which carries oxygen to the cells (this is unlike humans in which oxygen is delivered in the blood).  The system consists of several holes in the integument that allow oxygen from the surrounding air into the body.  The oxygen passes through tubes called tracheae (symetric pair, upper center) into smaller and smaller tubules located near the cells.  The series of parallel tubules in the upper left occurs in the unexpanded wing.  Air pressure within these tubules will help inflate the wing to normal size and give it strength. The large number of tubules near the head are for oxgenating the brain, mouthparts, antennae, and other sensory organs.
SmugMug > keywords > cockroach > Encyrtid wasp, Comperia merceti, inspecting cockroach egg cases.  Laboratory colony at the University of Arizona.

filename: encyrtid2
SmugMug > keywords > cockroach > Basset 1, Roach 0
Encyrtid wasp, Comperia merceti, emerging from a parasitized cockroach egg case. Laboratory colony at the University of Arizona.

filename: encyrtid2
 > Encyrtid wasp, Comperia merceti, emerging from a parasitized cockroach egg case.  Laboratory colony at the University of Arizona.

filename: encyrtid2
Encyrtid wasp, Comperia merceti, emerging from a parasitized cockroach egg case. Laboratory colony at the University of Arizona.

filename: encyrtid2
Photo by: alexwild • see photo in gallery

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