The photographs for this project were taken by students in the Entomology course (Biology 222L).  For macrophotography we use a variety of hand-held cameras, primarily Nikon Coolpix models. 

For extreme close-up photography we use two microscope setups: a ProgRes C3 (Jenoptik) digital camera mounted on a Wild M5A stereo-microscope, and an Olympus DP71 digital camera mounted on an Olympus sZX16 stereo-microscope. 

We use two kinds of focus enhancement software programs: iSolution Lite (iMTechnology) and MicroSuite Five (Olympus).  These programs combine the in-focus portions of a z-series of photographs, which allows one to achieve a greater depth-of-field than can be obtained with a single picture.    

Most pictures were processed with Adobe Photoshop to improve brightness, contrast and color saturation, and to remove blemishes. 

Scanning electron micrographs were taken with a Philips XL30 ESEM at Duke’s Shared Material & Instrumentation Facility (SMIF), of specimens sputter-coated with gold-palladium.