One of the easiest microscope slides to make is one of a fly’s wing.  I found an already dead one and ripped a wing off.  Then I placed it between the clear stickers mounted on one of the included paper slides.


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 The clear stickers from the FoldScope kit work better than the tape I had been using.  Looking at it through the FoldScope, I could see a lot of details I would have never noticed without a microscope.


 There were “hairs” on this wing.


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 One picture shows some larger hairs and the other one shows the edge of the fly’s wing.


 The center parts of the wing also showed some interesting details.


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 Here are some pictures of the actual fly (or one just like it) that the wing was from.  Just a normal house fly, probably
 
 
 
 Musca domestica.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 It was found on a bathroom counter.
 


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Fly Wing

Brian Madera

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