Explore

Bee Head (Scanning Electron Microscope)

There is always more to explore.

You can look out.

You can go out.

You can look in.

You can go in.

Look up, or down.

But if it’s exploring, you have to see things in a new light, even if the things you are seeing are not new, or even new to you.

Every day, our experience reinforces some characteristics of who we think we are, and also offers us the chance to change.

I like to explore insects that I find lying around dead, using my microscopes.

Insects have fascinating structures. Here is a series of scanning electron microscope photos of a bee head, zoomed in to see the ball joint that lets the bee control the position of its antenna. 

Note the varying length of the hairs. Those that would cause interference otherwise are shorter!
Zoom of short hairs on bee antenna.

This last image was obtained at 500x original magnification. Note the 100 micron scale in the upper right. That is 0.1 mm.

When you are looking at something at even 50x, there’s a lot to see! You have to learn to see what’s interesting.

Daily Prompt: Explore

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Shona

Engineering consultant by day, science fiction writer in off hours.

7 thoughts on “Explore”

  1. Bees have always “talked” to me via their antennas…..wOw! Now I can “see” as well as “hear” ’em!!!! Awesome….truly awesome! LJ

  2. Fascinating! It is amazing what we see and don’t see in this physical world. The same can be said for the emotional plane.

  3. Debbie, Thanks for sharing.

    It’s incredible of what we can’t see and understand of the complex world of living things. Evolution as it’s best combining cells yet so diversified in it’s creation.

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