scienceisbeauty: The annual Small World Photomicrography…
The eye of a honey bee covered in dandelion pollen.
A freshwater carnivorous plant known as a humped bladderwort.
Planktonic larva of a horseshoe worm.
Young buds of Arabidopsis, a flowering plant.
The spore capsule of a moss.
Fern sorus at varying levels of maturity.
Tentacles of a carnivorous plant.
The anthers of thale cress.
Feeding rotifers.
A starfish imaged using confocal microscopy.
The annual Small World Photomicrography Competition, as awesome as always.
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Tags: insects, tagging for Sally, though I'm not even sure there are any actual insects pictured here, rather, there are a bunch of false-color micrographs, of structures that might in some cases be parts of insects.
