For a piece of visual entomology, look no further than
Alex Wild Photography! Mirabelle has been following Alex's
Twitter account for years now and this is one of my favourites: a Twitter perk that stands out from the Twitter mush!
There you get close with the bugs and once you magnify and get to their level, discover
the beasts of engineering that they are: fascinating, awesome and pretty darn scary too!
The macro-photographic skillset of Texas-based American biologist
Alex Wild
plays its magic and his carefully-chosen
subjects are equally magical. The descriptives bear none of the generalist attributes that non-scientists like myself are guilty of using all too often when faced with unidentified small creatures: critters, bugs, insects, creepy-crawlies, flying things (ha-ha!) and other often-erroneous and somewhat disrespectful captions.
Here we dive deep into entomology territory, the taxa, order, genus, species and sub-species, and catch ourselves on a learning curve if we are serious enough about the views we entertain. This is how I found out, as a starting point, that myrmecology is the entomology branch related to ants.
When faced with the ingeniosity of life at its tiniest level, you cannot help but think about the Great Architect of the Universe and how none of this would have been possible without Him at the helm. Without politicising this post, I would venture the belief that atheists are deniers of God when you witness how the divine has engineered nature in a way that is humanely impossible to achieve.
Alex Wild has managed to build a captive audience out of science proselytes like myself, and the macro-photographic journey amongst creatures of the tiny order is both captivating and humbling!
Source: All photography by
Alex Wild Photography.
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