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
Whoa! Ewww! Intriguing! Nasty! Amazing! Gross! Disgusting! Neato! Yeck! Interesting!
etc.
Thanks for finding the source!
EDIT:
Wow, that is so amazing to me! You've got a compound eye made up of thousands of hexagonal eyes as seen here:
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And even though each of those hexagonal eyes look like a single solid object, they're each made up of thousands of even smaller cells.
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(These are from the Boston Globe article.)
