Up close with a Phidippus jumping spider (Salticidae).

Urbana, Illinois, USA
An Australian Garden Mantis Orthodera ministralis cleans pollen from her foot.

Melbourne, Australia
A honey bee worker, close-up. The hairs serve several functions, including insulation, pollen collection, and sensory input.
Magicicada periodical cicada.

Allerton Park, Illinois, USA
Cicindela sexguttata - six spotted tiger beetle

Urbana, Illinois, USA
Eciton burchellii soldier. The bizarre globular eyes of army ants are a result of the ants' having re-evolved functional lenses from the vestiges of a blind ancestor.

Maquipucuna reserve, Pichincha, Ecuador
Eciton burchellii soldier. The bizarre globular eyes of army ants are a result of the ants' having re-evolved functional lenses from the vestiges of a blind ancestor.

Maquipucuna reserve, Pichincha, Ecuador
Eciton burchellii soldier. The bizarre globular eyes of army ants are a result of the ants' having re-evolved functional lenses from the vestiges of a blind ancestor.

Maquipucuna reserve, Pichincha, Ecuador
Acromyrmex echinatior 

Panama; Laboratory colony at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
An Australian Garden Mantis Orthodera ministralis cleans pollen from her foot.

Melbourne, Australia
An Australian Garden Mantis Orthodera ministralis cleans pollen from her foot.

Melbourne, Australia
An Australian Garden Mantis Orthodera ministralis cleans pollen from her foot.

Melbourne, Australia
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