Ben Shoemate's Notebook

Amazing Scanning Electron Microscope Pictures All these pictures are from the book ' Microcosmos', created by Brandon Brill from London. 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 21 - Fimbriae of a Fallopian tube 22 - A daisy bud 23 - Calcium phosphate crystal 24 - The shell of a Foraminiferan