Scanning Electron Micrograph Collection (page 5)

Pyrochlore
Scanning electron microscope images of elemental maps showing thorium, uranium, tantalum and silicon in the mineral pyrochlore from Sokli, Finland

Goyazite
Scanning electron microscope image of the energy-dispersive X-ray spectrum of the mineral goyazite, obtained using Link AN10000 analysis system

Collembola, springtail
Scanning electron microscope image of a springtail head (x 300)

Velcro
A trademarked name for a fastening tape made up of a strip of nylon with a surface of minute hooks, that fasten to another strip with a surface of uncut pile. A SEM image

Cells on glass
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of cells on glass (x 2K)

Volcanic glass, Peles hair
Scanning electron microscope image of a sample of volcanic glass from Mt. Pele, produced to evaluate different types of laser in Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

Variable pressure scanning electron microscope
This electron microscope allows the imaging of samples without any preparation

Myxomycetes, plasmodial slime mould
Scanning electron microscope image of a plasmodial slime mould spore (x12000). This mould spends most of its life as a single cell; when they reproduce they form a slug-like blob that can travel

Collembola ocelli, springtail
Scanning electron microscope image of the springtail with simple eyes (x 1.2K)

Copper in unspecified mineral
Scanning electron microscope image of an elemental map showing the distribution of copper (Cu) in mineral samples

Ostracod
Scanning electron microscope image of an ostracod, an arthropod where the body is enclosed in a carapace (x 220)

Collembola sp. springtail
Scanning electron microscope image of a springtail showing the characteristic pattern on the cuticle surface (x 3.5K)

Fractured pollen grain
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image showing a fractured pollen grain

Populus nigra, lombardy or black poplar pollen
Scanning electron microscope image (x 1500) of black poplar pollen grains showing a characteristic granular surface ornamentation and no apertures (inaperturate)

Butterfly wing scale (part)

Aphis fabae, black bean aphid
Scanning electron microscope image showing a frontal view of a black bean aphid on leaf (x100). Aphids or plant lice are small, plant-sucking insects

Human hair
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image showing a human hair with the cuticle reflexed

Coccolithus pelagicus
Coccosphere of Coccolithus pelagicus, a common cold water coccolithophore. Collected from the British Continental shelf, North West of Scotland. Specimen diameter 15m. False-coloured SEM image

Ophiaster formosus
A coccolithophore with long appendages formed of strings of highly modified coccoliths. Collected from the West Pacific. Specimen diameter 50m. False-coloured SEM image

Lasius niger, black garden ant

Calliphora vicina, blowfly or blue bottle
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a blowflys wing

Fractured anther
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image showing a fractured anther, otherwise known as the sac, which contains the pollen in the male sex organs (stamens)

Asteraceae, daisy
Scanning electron microscope image of the fractured surface of an anther showing a developing pollen grain from a member of the daisy or Asteraceae family ( X 3000)

Lumbricus terrestris, earthworm
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image showing the chaeta/setae - involved in the locomotion on an earthworm

Taraxacum officinale, dandelion
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a dandelion (x 80)

Spider trichobothrium hair
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of the base of a trichobothrium hair (x 1, 000). The hair is an air-movement sensor extending from the pit in the cuticle of a spiders leg

Fagus sylvatica, European beech pollen
Scanning electron microscope picture (X1500) showing a pollen grain as seen from the side. The image shows one of the three laterally-placed aperture furrows with a small pore in the centre

Fraxinus excelsior, weeping ash pollen
Scanning electron microscope picture (x 1500) of ash pollen grains from above, with three furrowed apertures (trizonocolporate)

Calyptrolithophora papillifera, holococcolith
An SEM of a holococcolith, a nano-fossil, with flat top

A bryozoan colony
Scanning electron microscope image displayed on the glass screens in the Darwin Centre, at the Natural History Museum, London

Cystopteris diaphana, diaphanous bladder fern
An SEM showing a close-up of the spiny-lacunar surface of the diaphanous bladder fern (Cystopteris diaphana) spore. Photographed using Philips XL30 SEM

Hair of the Dog
A scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a dog hair

Mustelus mustelus, smoothhound shark
A Scanning Electron Microscope image of smoothhound shark skin. The skin is covered with tiny teeth called dermal denticles

Fragaria sp. strawberry
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a strawberry (Fragaria sp.), artificially coloured by computer

Sugar grains
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of sugar grains, artificially coloured by computer

Vitis sp. white grape
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a white grape (Vitis sp.), artificially coloured by computer

Browallia speciosa, amethyst
A pollen grain of the Browallia speciosa (polar view) from the family Solanaceae, the tomato family

Vaccinium sp. blueberry
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a blueberry (Vaccinium sp.), artificially coloured by computer

Solanum sp. tomato
A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a tomato (Solanum sp.), artificially coloured by computer

Isurus oxyrinchus, mako shark
Scanning Electron Microscope image of mako shark skin

Lasius niger, black garden ant
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) of a black ant leg. Widespread and common in a range of habitats but perhaps most familiar in gardens where nests are formed under paving stones and brickwork

Porcellio sccaber, woodlouse
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image showing all the units that make up the compound eye of a woodlouse

Calliphora vicina, blowfly or bluebottle
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a blowfly proboscis (x 85). This specialised mouth-part is used to squirt digestive enzymes onto the food

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

Danionella dracula, minnow
SEM image of the Danionella dracula. This tiny 17mm fish has evolved many unique and unusual characteristics, the most spectacular of which are jaw modifications that resemble true teeth

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