Amazing Scanning Electron Microscope PicturesAll 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
humming bird 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