Scanning Electron Microscope Images

In this section you will find images take by staff and researchers at Rhodes University

1. Fig wasp eye. The eye is a compound eye made of aggregations of similar structures called ommatidia.

2. Higher magnification of the image above showing the lenses of the insect compound eye. Each lens is about 10 micrometers in diameter.

3. Pollen - the image below shows a single pollen grain.