Here is a close up of the common House fly.
Posted on 09/04/2010 12:51:38 PM PDT by EveningStar
Amazing electron microscope pictures of insects and spiders.
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Yikes! Between those pictures and all the bedbug stories this week I have an itch factor of about ten right now.
Here is a close up of the common House fly.
I think that’s a close-up of its a—.
That’s the worst pic of all!
Looks like a dung beetle to me.
Wow! I’ve seen electron microscope photos before but these blow the others away!
The one that most resembles a character from Star Wars: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/7924099/Creepy-crawlies-Amazing-Scanning-Electron-Microscope-pictures-of-insects-and-spiders.html?image=8
The one that looks like the cute little guy posed for his portrait: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/7924099/Creepy-crawlies-Amazing-Scanning-Electron-Microscope-pictures-of-insects-and-spiders.html?image=18
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Nice.
They also have some “coloured” pollen micrographs that a guy made in his basement.
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Looks more like the common California Shit Bird to me.
Read the article, Britan’s dirty bedrooms’ at the site on the right hand side?
Disgusting!!!
Some of these critters do have an other worldly quality. :)
That first critter pictured must be the evolutionary precursor of the walrus. A mammal from an arthropod, or whatever? No problem, just takes lotsa time and gazillions of fortuitous mutations.
Very cool!
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