Giles Revell uses scanning electron microscopes and digital technology to produce stunning, monochromatic eight-foot-high photographs of insects with an incredible level of detail, depth of field and sculptural feel. This is achieved by making up to five hundred high-resolution scans of sections of the insect, merging and enhancing them to create works that infuse the photographic elements of the images with a “hand-finished” touch.

Legendary photographer Weegee became famous for photographing murder scenes in New York in stark detail. And now we can bring you the entomological equivalent, thanks to Volker Steger, a photographer based in Munich, Germany.

He found a way of getting the bugs killed by his car into a scanning electron microscope, revealing the wreckage of their tiny bodies in incredible detail.

Getting the fragile remains into the SEM intact was not going to be possible by simply scraping the bugs off the windscreen, so Steger stuck clear plastic over his headlights. Once the dead insects had been collected, he simply cut them out and loaded them up. They were nice and dry already, he told me, presumably from the wind.

But Steger found his driving speed was critical ??? between 70 and 90 km/h (42 and 54 mph) was perfect. Below that and nothing died, above it and all that was left was amorphous splatter.

He says it seems the abdomen of the insect is the part that strikes the car first and kills it, probably because it is the heaviest part. The head and wings were often intact.

Here's a picture of a flea pulling a cart, and no, it's not photoshopped. This is a real flea, hooked up to a tiny cart, balanced on someone's nose. It'd be a bad time to sneeze, wouldn't it?

Here's an all new design concept for embracing the moment (if you do have roaches) or as a nostagic glimpse of the past (if you don't have them any more).

Can't see the connection? Click on the images to enlarge the pictures, and then take a close look at the wallpaper pattern...