Nikon's photo competition awarded a Lithuanian photographer, Eugenijus Kavaliauskas, for capturing the faces of insects under the microscope. The images are impressive and some were recorded in an unprecedented way. Check it out below.
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For the more curious, the images below can represent a great source of subject. However, if insects are not your thing, the figures may surprise you. There are 7 insects with faces now seen up close.
What do the faces of these insects look like?
beetles
You may have already seen one flying close to you, with several pairs of wings that serve as protection and also impulses to fly.
In the picture, you can see a beetle of the carabidae family, with its big eyes.
flies
Flies are famous for flying in food and have even been sung in the voice of great artists, such as Raul Seixas. In Brazil alone, there are more than 8,700 species of flies, a number that reaches 10% of the number of existing species in the world (more than 150,000).
As you can see in the image, they are beautiful, but they can provoke a certain disgust in some people.
Ants
Ants are super important insects for the environment, they have different forms and each group behaves differently.
As they are small, until then, no one knew the faces of these animals. But photographer Eugenijus Kavaliauskas managed to capture the image of an ant's face. Did you imagine they were like this?
wasps
Wasps are part of the Hymenoptera family, and because they are similar to bees, they are often confused. With all their uniqueness, they are beautiful animals.
Locusts
Locusts are known to be the food of a good part of the people in the world. Common in crops, locusts can be frightening. Look!
spiders
The only animal on this list that is not an insect, spiders impress with their many eyes and hairy paws.
Dragon-fly
Dragonflies can fly at an incredible speed of up to 80km/h and are great hunters of animals. From the picture, they are impressive animals.
