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The Evil Side of Nature
JavaJones:
Very interesting Jenny! I'm familiar with the Ichneumon and its habits, but hadn't heard that little tidbit about them hatching inside the mother! There are certainly a lot of fascinating and bizarre stories of nature's workings. Some of my favorites have to do with the mental alterations parasites can perform on their hosts. Things like making grasshoppers attracted to water so they jump in and drown, allowing the parasites to move on to their next phase of life (aquatic), or making rats unafraid of cat urine so they get eaten and perpetuate the parasite's life cycle. The Cordyceps fungus is another fascinating story beautifully depicted (and no doubt popularized) in the recent Planet Earth series.
- Oshyan
Deozaan:
This is more disturbing than the videoSupposedly this is an electron microscope image of a maggot.
Anyone know if that image is real?
f0dder:
Dunno if the image is real, but living stuff viewed in electron microscopes do tend to look absolutely foul.
Deozaan:
Dunno if the image is real, but living stuff viewed in electron microscopes do tend to look absolutely foul.
-f0dder (April 13, 2011, 06:07 PM)
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As if maggots don't already look foul enough already!
JavaJones:
Yeah I seem to recall those are colorized or color enhanced electron microscope images. Very cool though. Ah yes, here we go:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/7924099/Creepy-crawlies-Amazing-Scanning-Electron-Microscope-pictures-of-insects-and-spiders.html
Lots more weirdos there!
And a bonus from the Boston Globe photo blog: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/peering_into_the_micro_world.html
- Oshyan
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