Nature's finest looking creatures

A select number of images highlighting natures most interesting looking minature creatures. From top left clockwise: a dust mite; a fly; a spider's spigot (web maker); a wasp's sting; the head of a flea; a red blood cell, platelet and leukocyte (white blood cell), and...... a maggot's face!

The comedic/evil looking maggot's face, and the sinister dust mite whose alien appearance sums up it's single minded harvesting of our flakes of skin are favourites.

These images were taken using an electron microscope, where focusing a beam of electrons rather than photons (light particles) enables high resolution (detail) at very high magnification.

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