This is totally crazy.
Bug-eyed
This picture of an insect covered in dew moments after a downpour is part of Ondrej Pakan’s series of big-eye views from around the world.
(photo by Ondrej Pakan / Caters News via Zuma via msnbc.com)
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Posts tagged insects
Mar9
Aug5
Ants give new meaning to ‘you are what you eat’
These ants can’t ever be self-conscious about what they eat! Their transparent abdomens reflect what they’ve ingested.
Realizing this, photographer and scientist Mohamed Babu captured these amazing images after putting colorful sugar drops in his garden and letting the ants go to town, according to The Daily Mail.
(photo by Mohamed Babu / Solent News & Photo Agency via Animal Tracks)
Nov10
Cricket sets testicle size record - Tuberous bushcricket’s cojones are 14 percent of body weight
Fourteen percent of body weight? Seems impressive, but if only I had some way to put that into perspective…
To put that in perspective, the testicles of a man weighing 200 pounds (91 kilograms) with that ball-to-body ratio would weigh 28 pounds (12.7 kilograms).
(via msnbc.com)
Sep10
Exquisite Castaways
Engineered for survival, insect eggs hang on and hatch wherever their parents deposit them.
Photos by Martin Oeggerli
Julia heliconian butterfly egg - Dryas iulia
Perched on the tendril of a Passiflora plant, the egg of the Julia heliconian butterfly may be safe from hungry ants. This species lays its eggs almost exclusively on this plant’s twisted vines.
(via National Geographic)
