20 Amazing Microscope Pictures

These pictures are taken  from the book ‘ Microcosmos‘, created by Brandon Brill . This book includes many scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of insects, human body parts and household items. These are the most amazing images of what is too small to see with the naked eye.

01 – A wood or heathland Ant, Formica fusca, holding a microchip

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

03 – Eyelash hairs growing from the surface of human skin

04 – The surface of a strawberry

05 – Bacteria on the surface of a human tongue

06 – Human sperm (spermatozoa), the male sex cells

07 – The nylon hooks and loops of velcro

08 – 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

09 – The weave of a nylon stocking

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

11 – The head of a mosquito

12 – A human head louse clinging to a hair

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

14 – Cut hairs and shaving foam between two razor blades

15 – Cigarette paper

16 – The corroded surface of a rusty metal nail

17 – The head of a Romanesco cauliflower

18 – The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

19 – Mushrooms spores

20 – A clutch of unidentified butterfly eggs on a raspberry plant