The white blob at the bottom of the circle is indeed the Pritt Stick. I'm not sure that I could get superglue to work any better although maybe with it drying clear it wouldn't be as noticable.
You can see just how small the details are when you compare them to the width of the pin that you can just see creeping in to the bottom of the picture. A nice surprise was the fact that you can see the proboscis (sp?) of the moth curled up under it's mouth. I couldn't see that at all with the naked eye and my eyes are good! It was a genuinely exciting moment, which is odd since it's just a photograph, but you kind of get the feeling that you're seeing something that no-one has ever seen before - even though that's not really true in the wider sense.
I tried to Google to try to get a feel for the likely size of the proboscis but didn't see anything in the time I spent looking. I estimate that the pin diameter is somewhere around 3/4 mm so you can make a rough estimate of how big it is from that.
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The white blob at the bottom of the circle is indeed the Pritt Stick. I'm not sure that I could get superglue to work any better although maybe with it drying clear it wouldn't be as noticable.
You can see just how small the details are when you compare them to the width of the pin that you can just see creeping in to the bottom of the picture. A nice surprise was the fact that you can see the proboscis (sp?) of the moth curled up under it's mouth. I couldn't see that at all with the naked eye and my eyes are good! It was a genuinely exciting moment, which is odd since it's just a photograph, but you kind of get the feeling that you're seeing something that no-one has ever seen before - even though that's not really true in the wider sense.
I tried to Google to try to get a feel for the likely size of the proboscis but didn't see anything in the time I spent looking. I estimate that the pin diameter is somewhere around 3/4 mm so you can make a rough estimate of how big it is from that.