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.
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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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!