Scanning Electron Microscope Image Collection

Crysotile asbestos
Scanning electron micrograph of 5-Fold symmetry in crysotile asbestos. Magnification on the 5 x4 transparency = X 600, 000

Liver
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a section through a liver (x 7000), an organ that has over 500 functions in the human body (x 800)

Cimex lectularius, bed bug
Scanning electron microscope image of a bed bug (x 17). The sucking mouthparts enable the feeding bedbugs to pierce the hosts tissues and siphon out a blood meal

Taraxacum officinale, dandelion (fruiting head)
Scanning electron microscope image showing a vertical section through an unripe fruiting head of a dandelion in the yellow flower stage. Colour added artificially by computer

Snail teeth

Plasmodium sp. malarial parasite
Scanning electron microscope image of a malarial protozoal parasite. The parasite requires the anopheles mosquito to complete its life cycle

Kaolinite
Scanning electron microscope image of kaolinite (x 4.00K). Its a common phyllosilicate mineral, its structure is composed of silicate sheets bonded to aluminum oxide/hydroxide layers

Sarcoptes scabiei, scabies mite
Scanning electron microscope image of an itch or scabies mite, a parasite that infests a wide variety of mammalian hosts including humans

Human red blood corpuscles
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) of red blood cells showing their characteristic biconcave shape which increases the surface area for diffusion

Globorotalia scitula, foraminifera fossil
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image showing a fossilised planktonic species of foraminifera

Scyliorhinus canicula, dogfish
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of the scales of a dogfish (x 40)

Aspergillus
An SEM image of aspergillus in spore production (x 815 on a standard 9 cm wide print). The moulds are common in the northern hemisphere and some cause disease in humans and animals

Caterpillar egg
Scanning electron microscope image of a caterpillar egg (x 90), the caterpillar emerges by chewing through the shell (x 350)

Blackfly antenna
Scanning electron microscope image of a blackfly antenna (x 350). These long sensory organs feel and taste objects as well as sensing vibrations and smells (x 1.1K)

Anopheles gambiae, mosquito
Scanning electron microscope image showing a close-up of the compound eye of a female mosquito (x 2200 on a standard 9 cm wide print)

T2 cell culture
Scanning electron microscope image showing a T2 cell culture (x 4K)

The anus of a bot fly
Scanning electron microscope image of the anus of a bot fly. Image on display in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Roundworm
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a parasitic roundworms head (x 1000 on a standard 9 cm wide print)

Moth egg
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a moth egg (x 90). The caterpillar emerges by chewing through the shell

Dermatophagoides sp. dust mite
Scanning electron microscope image of a dust mite. Dust mites are secondary to pollen as a cause for allergies and they live in bedding, soft furniture and carpets

Sarcoptes scabiei, scabies mite
Scanning electron microscope image of an itch or scabies mite, a parasite that infests a wide variety of mammalian hosts including man

Emiliania huxleyi coccolithophores collected from a bloom in the SW Approaches to the English Channel in June 2004. Date: 2004

Sea salt
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of sea salt, artificially coloured by computer

Tyrophagus casei, cheese mite
Scanning electron microscope image of a cheese mite (x 170). These creatures are generally considered to be a pest, however they are added to Altenburger cheese to give it flavour

SEM of echinoderm steroem
A SEM of an example of stereom of an echinoderm (phylum which consists of 5 classes including starfish). Stereom is the structure formed by the fine networks of calcium carbonate which constitute

Dermanyssus gallinae, red or poultry mite
Scanning electron microscope image of the red or poutry mite. Adults appear red when engorged with blood, but otherwise are black, grey or white. Females are about 1mm long

Ceratodon purpureus, ceratodon moss spore capsule
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a ceratodon moss spore capsule (x 650 on a standard 9 cm wide print)

Foraminifer
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a foraminifer - a single celled organism

Dermatophagoides pteronyssius, dust mite
Scanning electron microscope image showing a dust mite (x 250 on standard 9cm wide print). This image has been artificially coloured by a computer

Chrysanthemum, CT scan image
CT Scan image of a Chrysanthemum

Syracosphaera anthos
Coccosphere from the Western Mediterranean. False coloured to show the shell is formed of inner and outer layers of coccoliths with very different structure

Papilio palinurus, emerald swallowtail
SEM image of an emerald swallowtails wing

Pieris rapae, small white
SEM image of the wing of a small white butterfly

Papilio machaon, old world swallowtail
SEM image of Papilio machaon wing

Papilio palinurus, emerald swallowtail
SEM image of an emerald swallowtails wing

Malachite comprises of (copper carbonate hydroxide). Malachite has distinctive green banding and belongs to the carbonate class

Scyphosphaera apsteinii. SEM image of an equatorial coccolith

Dinosaur eggshell
Scanning electron microscope image on display in the Darwin Centre

Ventral surface of a mite from the prostigmatic species
Scanning electron microscope image displayed on the glass screens in the Darwin Centre, at the Natural History Museum, London

Visbyshaera oligofurcata, acritarch
Scanning electron microscope image of a microfossil belonging to a group of marine phytoplanktonic organisms known as acritarchs that teemed in Silurian seas about 415 Ma ago

Oestridae, botfly larva
Scanning electron microscope image of a botfly larva. They are parasites feeding on skin in the case of warble flies, nostrils in the flies that affect sheep and deer

Difflugia Corona
Freshwater Testate Amoebae. Magnification x 450

Lycopod

Diplopoda sp. plate millipede
Scanning electron microscope image of a lateral view of the head of a plate millipede. Image displayed on the glass screens in the Darwin Centre, at the Natural History Museum, London

Trypanosomes
Scanning electron microscope image showing a trypanosoma blood smear. They have proved to be of great interest as they have evolved very differently to other better studied organisms

Ophioctenella sp. brittle star
Scanning electron microscope image of the post-larval stage of a brittle star (x 110) A newly described species 1994

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