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20 BioScapes Contest Photos--Life Viewed through the Microscope

Winners and other images from the 2008 BioScapes Photo Competition use light microscopes to portray extraordinary images of biological specimens

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1. Mr. Spike Walker 20 BioScapes Contest Photos--Life Viewed through the Microscope :: Winners and other image

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1. Mr. Spike Walker Fairy fly. Actually a type of wasp, it is one of the smallest insects in the world, at only 0.21 millimeter long. Originally captured using Rheinberg illumination.
Spike Walker, Penkridge, Staffordshire, U.K.
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