Last fall I found a dead Bald-faced Hornet on the porch and I put it in a small jar for later examination. Today is that vague later. I was doing some microscope work anyway, trying to tease some mushroom mycelium free from the dirt it was growing in to try and get a better look at the network of it, without much luck (it kept tearing apart and all I got were shots of fuzzy dirt), so I looked to the hornet wing instead. These photos are all of the right forewing. For more information on parts of an insect wing, click here. What's interesting is the number of hairs, because to the naked eye the wing appears nearly translucent, no visible hairs. And then also, there is the structure of the wing, that while the venation appears to be a patchwork, this is the regular form.
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