August 11, 2006
Insect closeups.
Get to know the housefly, ant, hornet, honeybee, and many other friends up close and personal!
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The honeybee photos look like stuffed animals. The others - not so much.
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Quite a handsome fellow, that bee.
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See also: Rick Lieder's insects-in-nature photos (via), Mark Plonsky, who also has a bit of a how-to; Frank Phillips with a how-to of his own; and wow, pretty much anything here. Yay bugs!
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Wheeee I love seeing insect macros! even if it means having nightmares tonight
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the honeybee has bristles and also has five eyes with which to study flowers and the condition of the skies bees wear their bones on their outsides unlike the flesh-coat vertebrates who keep theirs tucked inside
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Little critters! Via
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*hastily opens his brolly before squee starts falling from the sky*
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Little critters! How funny... that flickr photoset is by specklet, who I met a few months back at a mofi/mefi meetup and run into every few weeks. Somehow I'm continually surprised when real life and the internet overlap. And let me be the first to say... Skink! On a finger!
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AntWeb has some cool ultra-closeups, mostly of heads.