Really Small Things

Lots of fascinating pictures of really small things from Microcosmos, a book about life up close. They were all taken with an electron microscope.

Holding steady: The wood or heathland ant holding a microchip in its toothed (serrated) mandibles. The wood ant is social, and acts as a slave for the blood-red ant Formica sanguine
An ant holding a microchip.

Butterfly eggs on a raspberry plant photo
A clutch of butterfly eggs sits on a raspberry plant.

Head of a mosquito photo
A mosquito head.

Velcro photo
Velcro!

Silicon microchip photo
The surface of a silicon microchip.

Eyelash hairs photo
Human eyelashes.

The corroded surface of a rusty metal nail photo
A rusty nail.