are really amazing photos of insects and mites that retired British scientist has taken Steve Gschmeissner with a scanning electron microscope. Particularly striking is the wide variety of existing forms and how some are complex, despite its diminutive size. The
has surprised me most was that of common silver minnow , whose meeting in the bathroom is my issue almost daily, and whose portrait heads this article. It turns out that this is a living fossil because its structure has remained virtually unchanged for 400 million years, preserving the appearance of the first insects that existed on Earth, who did not develop wings until later. By contrast, most non-winged insects come from ancestors they did have wings. Though easy to kill because of their poor reflexes, can live more than eight years and are really nasty when they appear suddenly from the pages of old books.
has surprised me most was that of common silver minnow , whose meeting in the bathroom is my issue almost daily, and whose portrait heads this article. It turns out that this is a living fossil because its structure has remained virtually unchanged for 400 million years, preserving the appearance of the first insects that existed on Earth, who did not develop wings until later. By contrast, most non-winged insects come from ancestors they did have wings. Though easy to kill because of their poor reflexes, can live more than eight years and are really nasty when they appear suddenly from the pages of old books.
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