The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Jules Henri Poincare

microscopic photography by Igor Siwanowicz

acilius diving beetle male front tarsus 100x

barnacle

shoggoth – the crawling chaos

grass

desmids trapped by bladderwort

male diving beetle leg – fragment

bladderwort trap

rotifers + staurastrum

utricularia gibba – inside the trap

midge pupa

desmid mandala