This is the first proper nano-gigapan using the a modified gigapan unit attached to a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The image was then assembled was then stitched using the gigapan stitching software. The image is of an ants head at 1000X magnification.

Brian Fisher, the chair of entomology at the California Academy of Sciences identified this ant as a Linepithema humile. More information about this ant can be found in the following two links:

www.antweb.org/description.do?rank=species&name=humile&genus=linepithema&project=worldants

www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0006020&shot=p1&project=worldants