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Black bee (unknown species)

Anthophylax cyaneus (more info req)

Cocoon from medicinal leech Hirudo verbena

Sclera (white part) of the human eye

Yellow Jacket Wasp, anterior view

Male black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus) molting

Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) tooth

Human dermis scar tissue

Blue Bee (unknown species)

Honey bee (unknown species)

Brown jumping spider (unknown species)

Tick

Human eye with blue iris

Human mustache hair

Knot in hair

Louse (Pediculus humanus humanus)

Concrete mite (Balaustium)

Trachymyrmex septentrionalis is the northernmost fungus growing ant, and is abundant in pine flat forests throughout the Eastern USA, ranging as far north as Long Island, New York. In this symbiosis, T. septentrionalis ants collect plant material and insect feces, which they feed to a specific "cultivar" fungus that they farm in underground gardens. Once the fungus has digested this food, it forms nutrient-rich swellings that the ants feed upon. The ants also protect their cultivar fungus from disease using antibiotic-producing Pseudonocardia bacteria that reside on the ants' proplueral plates (i.e., "chest"). The ants therefore both farm the cultivar fungus as their food source and protect it by "crop spraying" antibiotics produced by their symbiotic Pseudonocardia bacteria.

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Black bee (unknown species)

Anthophylax cyaneus (more info req)

Cocoon from medicinal leech Hirudo verbena

Sclera (white part) of the human eye

Yellow Jacket Wasp, anterior view

Male black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus) molting

Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) tooth

Human dermis scar tissue

Blue Bee (unknown species)

Honey bee (unknown species)

Brown jumping spider (unknown species)

Tick

Human eye with blue iris

Human mustache hair

Knot in hair

Louse (Pediculus humanus humanus)

Concrete mite (Balaustium)

Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio)

Knot in human blonde hair

Human eye

Emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire) beetle

Crested gecko (Correlophus ciliatus) eye

Mould on food

Madagascan sunset moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus) scales.

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Black bee (unknown species)

Anthophylax cyaneus (more info req)

Cocoon from medicinal leech Hirudo verbena

Sclera (white part) of the human eye

Yellow Jacket Wasp, anterior view

Male black widow spider (Latrodectus hesperus) molting

Great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) tooth

Human dermis scar tissue

Blue Bee (unknown species)

Honey bee (unknown species)

Brown jumping spider (unknown species)

Tick

Human eye with blue iris

Human mustache hair

Knot in hair

Louse (Pediculus humanus humanus)

Concrete mite (Balaustium)

Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio)

Knot in human blonde hair

Human eye

Emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire) beetle

Crested gecko (Correlophus ciliatus) eye

Mould on food

Madagascan sunset moth (Chrysiridia rhipheus) scales.