Dr. Igor Siwanowicz , Virginia, USA
Median (inner) side of an unassuming, tiny gray moth's proboscis, covered in mechano- and chemo-sensory hairs.
An Ant is trapped in glue on SUNDEW plant.
(Found in bogs here - keep an eye open when you're out "footing the turf" this summer.
Mr. Ralph Grimm Jimboomba, Queensland, Australia
Drop of Freshwater with diatoms
Dr. Victor Chepurnov
Algae R&D Office
Ghent, Belgium
Face to Face with an Ant
Dr. Jan Michels
Institute of Zoology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel
Kiel, Germany
Butterfly Wing Scales
Mr. Charles Krebs
Issaquah, Washington, USA
Birth of Bugs
Mr. Frederic Labaune
Auxonne, France
BUTTERFLY EGG
Mr. Gilles San Martin
Jambes, Belgium
Specimen: Butterfly Pararge aegeria egg (ca 1mm in height) with embryo/caterpillar inside.Through the egg shell, the head capsel (blackish) with the ocelli (eyes), the mandibles (reddish) with labial palps and the base of the caterpillar body bristles (grayish dots on the lower part) are visible.