It looks like something ripped straight from a horror movie, but it’s actually a photo of a hard working insect. The photo was honored as an “Image of Distinction” as part of Nikon’s annual Small World Photomicrography Competition and there’s more where that came from.
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00:00These are ants, but what if I told you this?
00:06This was also an ant.
00:07It looks like something ripped straight out of a horror movie, but it's actually one
00:11of the hardworking insects magnified some five times.
00:14The photo was honored as an image of distinction as part of Nikon's annual small world photomicrography
00:19competition.
00:20The photo is of a common everyday carpenter ant, however, at this range, it appears monstrous
00:24indeed.
00:25And while it appears to have red eyes, those are actually just the bases of the insects
00:30and those vicious yellow teeth are actually sensory hairs.
00:33Other images of distinction included this, a photo of a daddy long-legged spider, as
00:37well as this wild action shot showing a fly being consumed by a tiger beetle.
00:41Every year, Nikon's photo contest brings in some of the wildest images of common everyday
00:46things that look anything but common.
00:48Each one a fun mystery unto itself, like this, which is actually an electrical arc between
00:53a pin and a wire.