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In the early 1900s, photographer David Fairchild trained his camera on a part of the world most of us ignore: The insects under our feet. His resulting body of work, published in 1913 in National ...

I can’t begin to imagine the patience of Dimitriy Reinshtein, an Israeli photographer who brings living insects into his studio, places a single drop of water onto their tiny heads, and photographs ...

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This project was created in order to take pictures of insects in flight using an additional optical lens system to peek for insects in focus. This project was created in order to take pictures of ...

Comparing bug bite photos isn’t a perfect science, but it may help to give you a clue. To help you play detective, we included pictures of bites and stings from the most common insects you’ll ...

It’s easy to get creeped out by the bugs of summer, until you realize how incredibly beautiful and varied they all are. Here are the entries from this week’s bug Shooting Challenge. We just recently ...

Photographer Levon Biss takes such incredibly detailed pictures of insects (most smaller than half an inch big) that he can blow up his insect portraits to nearly 10 feet in size. It’s a treat to see ...

These are some of the most detailed and (slightly) disturbing bug-meal photos you might ever see. You can thank us later. For now, here is the minicosmos at its most raw and instinctual, engaged in ...

Microsculpture: Portraits of Insects by Levon Biss, published by Abrams. Levon Bliss SHARE We typically think of insects as pests or pestilences, carrying disease or gnawing their way through our ...