Honorable Mention: Millipede Marvel

Photography by Jamie Knaub, graduate student,
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

This is a false-colored scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a sagittal view of a greenhouse millipede. SEMs use a beam of electrons to image specimens rather than light, so grayscale photographs are captured that can be colored. In this photo, the ventral portion of the millipede displays bumps (colored) and the lateral projections (termed paranota) are visible next to a single leg. The image was taken using a JEOL Neoscope 6000 Plus SEM at the FAU High School Owls Imaging Lab.