You never saw them like this

[Carlos]

Made a nice post for GTP but maybe you guys would like to see this too.


Note: These are real photos

The head of a maggot or the larva of a bluebottle fly

A cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis) amongst cat hairs

A common housefly (Musca domestica)

A house dust mite (Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus)

A meal (or flour) mite (Acarus siro)

The head of a Silverfish (Lepisma saccharina)

The head of a red flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum)

A daddy-long-legs spider (Pholcus phalangioides)

The head of a human flea (Pulex irritans) (Looks like the girl from that Avatar movie I never saw)

The head of a yellow dung fly (Scatophaga stercoraria)

The head of a Jumping Spider (family Salticidae)

A fly

The head of a tropical caterpillar (order Lepidoptera)

The head of a froghopper (superfamily Cercopoidea)

A dog flea (Ctenocephalides canis)

A common wasp (Vespula vulgaris) head

A wasp's head (order Hymenoptera)

The head of a soldier turtle ant (Cephalotes sp.) from the Amazonian rainforest

The head of a honey bee (Apis sp.)

The head of a bedbug (Cimex sp.)

 

[ImaRobot]

wtffffff this is some crazy stuff. Its amazing and scary all at the same time.

 

[Wiggs]

What the hell???!!!! Aliens!!!!!!

 

[saskman1950]

(Looks like the girl from that Avatar movie I never saw)

What PART of the girl from that Avatar movie that you never saw...are you talking about??? Just curious!!!

 

[Carlos]

What PART of the girl from that Avatar movie that you never saw...are you talking about??? Just curious!!!

I missed it from the beginning to the end....

I edited my post, I forgot one photo. It's the wasp.

 

[zr1chris]

What the hell???!!!! Aliens!!!!!!

Some crazy pics indeed.

 

[Carlos]

I found some other cool things under the microscope!

A wood or heathland ant, Formica fusca, holding a microchip

The surface of an Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory silicon microchip

Eyelash hairs growing from the surface of human skin

Bacteria on the surface of a human tongue

Human sperm (spermatozoa), the male sex cells

The nylon hooks and loops of velcro

Household dust which includes long hairs such as cat fur, twisted synthetic and woolen fibers, serrated insect scales, a pollen grain, plant and insect remains

The weave of a nylon stocking

The end of the tongue (proboscis) of a hummingbird hawkmoth

The head of a mosquito

A human head louse clinging to a hair

The eight eyes (two groups of four) on the head of a Mexican red-kneed tarantula

Cut hairs and shaving foam between two razor blades

Cigarette paper

The corroded surface of a rusty metal nail

The head of a Romanesco cauliflower

The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

Mushrooms spores

A clutch of unidentified butterfly eggs on a raspberry plant

Fimbriae of a Fallopian tube

A daisy bud

Calcium phosphate crystal

The shell of a foraminiferan

 

[MuchoJimbo]

What's crazy is that all of these things are around us everyday yet they seem so 'Alien' magnified.

You can tell where some people got their inspiration from.

 

[Carlos]

What's crazy is that all of these things are around us everyday yet they seem so 'Alien' magnified.

You can tell where some people got their inspiration from.

That, all the colours they have.. Pretty crazy!

Found a creepy one, but still really really cool:

What you are looking at, is a female black bean aphid with babies on board.

 

[Wiggs]

Some of these actually make my skin crawl.

 

[ImaRobot]

That calcium phosphate crystal is actually pretty cool looking

 

[Carlos]

Some of these actually make my skin crawl.

Hahaha sorry buddy!

 

[MuchoJimbo]

Imagine if we could take the amount of magnification we use to see these and magnify that much on these things? When does IT end? Perhaps eventually our dimension would be seen again but then get larger....................Dammit' Carlos now I am going to drive myself crazy theorizing about this!

 

[Carlos]

But I like your theorie. I hope one time we can see from so close we can see the molecules flying around..

 

[saskman1950]

What I find interesting is the ant with the microchip. A 2012 core i7 has 2.5 Billion transistors in a chip not much bigger than the chip it's carrying..

I"m not so sure ants aren't making them.