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  • Yellow jacket (Dolichovespula arenaria) wasp stinger
  • Bottom surface of a human tongue
  • Trachymyrmex septentrionalis is the northernmost fungus growing ant, and is abundant in pine flat forests throughout the Eastern USA, ranging as far north as Long Island, New York. In this symbiosis, T. septentrionalis ants collect plant material and insect feces, which they feed to a specific "cultivar" fungus that they farm in underground gardens. Once the fungus has digested this food, it forms nutrient-rich swellings that the ants feed upon. The ants also protect their cultivar fungus from disease using antibiotic-producing Pseudonocardia bacteria that reside on the ants' proplueral plates (i.e., "chest"). The ants therefore both farm the cultivar fungus as their food source and protect it by "crop spraying" antibiotics produced by their symbiotic Pseudonocardia bacteria.
  • Mite on a beetle
  • Blister Beetle, lateral view
  • Brown jumping spider (unknown species)
  • Mould on food
  • Wasp
  • Ginkgo berry
  • Orange and white jumping spider (unknown species)
  • Robber fly (Asilidae)
  • Knot in human blonde hair
  • Human eye
  • Agapostemon
  • Ichneumonidae
  • Black bee (unknown species)
  • Jumping spider (unknown species)
  • Drosophila expressing GFP
  • Stink bug
  • Louse egg capsule attached to single strand of hair
  • Moutparts from medicinal leech Hirudo verbena
  • Black fly, lateral view
  • Tapeworm
  • Emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire) beetle
  • Madagascan sunset moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus) scales
  • Male black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus) molting
  • Wool fibres
  • Louse (Pediculus humanus humanus)
  • Caddis Fly (more info req)
  • Silk fibres