Gigapan collection of electron-microscope images of an ant

Gigapan: Ant – Eutetramorium mocquerysi

This Gigapan is part of the NanoGigaPan project. Which is working to take high resolution images of very small things.

More at the Nano Gigapan blog

Also ant-related Mr. Ellis, Ant mega-colony takes over world

[I]t now appears that billions of Argentine ants around the world all actually belong to one single global mega-colony.

I, for one, welcome our new ant overlords, and want to disavow any connection with the Nano Gigapan pictures. I’m just the messenger.