After noticing a pesky moth flying around my room, I decided to observe it with my foldscope. After catching the moth in an empty container, being careful not to crush it, I placed the insect in the freezer, effectively kill it and increasing the ease of the dissection process. I initially hoped to look at the moth’s wing under the microscope; however, I did not anticipate the difficulty of handling moth wings. Even after I cut one off, the section appeared too opaque for observation.

I placed the remaining section on a microscope slide and placed two pieces of tape on either side of the sample to ensure that I didn’t crush the moth when I positioned the cover slip. The resulting images appear slightly dark and blurry, which I attribute to the girth of the moth sample. With more precise tools, I would have liked to cut the moth into thin sections to have better visibility of individual cells.