Closeups

I'm cheating here. I had these photos up at another site I run...but that's another story.

Brothers and sisters, the head of our cousin the hellgrammite as seen under a scanning electron microscope:



I found this on the the hellgrammite page of the Web site of the Stratford Landing Elementary School in Fairfox County, Virginia. They give credit to Uglybug.org.

I've gotta get out of here, so I'll just leave you some photos to drool over. Here's another view of the head:



And here's a view of the the head of what the hellgrammite turns into: