Arthropods - nowhere closer

Arthropods are invertebrate animals with an external skeleton, a divided body and jointed limbs. These include all insects, arachnids and crustaceans. Their body is made up of repeating segments, each with a pair of limbs. Due to their diversity, they have become one of the most numerous animals on our planet. There are over a million described species - more than 80% of all known living things on the planet. We bring to your attention the most detailed pictures of arthropods made under the US Bee Inventory and Monitoring Program. You haven't seen them like this before!

(Total 40 photos)

1. An unknown species of wasp. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

2. Yellow hornet. (USGS BIML/Tim McMahon)

3. Female black widow. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

4. Rare butterfly Lycaeides melissa samuelis. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

5. Melissodes dentiventris. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

6. A bug on the glass. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

7. Black horsefly. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

8. Augochlora regina. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

9. Long-winged grasshopper. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

10. Megachile-campanulae. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

11. Lasioglossum nr longifrons. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

12. Lacemaker. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

13. Staphylinides. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

14. Trypoxylon mexicanum. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

15. Centris haemorrhoidalis. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

16. Swordsman. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

17. Agapostemon coloradinus. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

18. Leptochilus acolhuus. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

19. Cabbage bug eggs. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

20. Polistes metricus. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

21. Road wasp. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

22. One of the types of cricket. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

23. Hoplitis truncata. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

24. Deer horsefly. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

25. Drepanaporus collaris. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

26. Triepeolus donatus. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

27. Drepanaporus collaris. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

28. Leafhopper. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

29. Trypoxylon mexicanum. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

30. Yellow hornet. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

31. Phyciodes tharos. (USGS BIML/Brooke Alexander)

32. Cave grasshopper. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

33. Cabbage bug larvae. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

34. Lachnopus guerinii. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

35. Bombus griseocollis. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

36. Coelioxys sayi. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

37. Unknown spider. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

38. Halyomorpha halys. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

39. Osmia sandersoneae. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)

40. Dianthidium curvatum. (USGS BIML/Sam Droege)