These photos are taken from Brandon Brill’s book, “Microcosmos.” London England. Book includes SEM images (Scanning Electron Microscope) of items most of which are too small for the naked eye to see.
Utterly amazing.

A human head louse clinging to a hair

An ant, Formica fusca, holding a microchip

Bacteria on the surface of a human tongue

A clutch of unidentified butterfly eggs on a raspberry plant

Cut hairs and shaving foam between two razor blades

Eyelash hairs growing from the surface of human skin

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

Human sperm (spermatozoa), the male sex cells

The corroded surface of a rusty metal nail

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

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

The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

The head of a Romanesco cauliflower

The nylon hooks and loops of velcro
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The surface of an Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory silicon microchip













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