Cat Flea - The most common pest found in the home, Ctenocephalides felis is streamlined and covered in bristles. Fortunately, they're 250 times smaller than this one
Human Head Louse - This critter clings onto hair and moves about the skin, biting and sucking blood. No scratching, now. Worryingly, this Pediculus humanus capitis is only magnified 80x
Fruit Fly - This nuisance pest contaminates food with bacteria and can produce up to 500 eggs in a life cycle that completes in little more than a week. Magnification is slightly lower at 350x
Mosquito - This one is the most common mosquito in the world. The Culex pipiens can carry the West Nile Virus, encephalitis and elephantiasis. Only the female bites
Black Garden Ant - Lasius niger gently carries an aphid egg in its jaws, magnified here 90x. Ants actively farm aphids, in exchange for the sweet 'honeydew' excreted by the aphid
coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of the head of a maggot or the larva of a bluebottle fly (Protophormia sp.) with tiny teeth-like fangs extending from its mouth. The maggots of this fly are used medicinally to clean wounds.
Coloured scanning electron micrograph of a house dust mite (Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus). Millions of dust mites inhabit the home, feeding on shed skin cells.
Coloured scanning electron micrograph of a meal (or flour) mite (Acarus siro). It has long hairs extending from its body and large powerful front legs. This species is a common pest of granaries, mills and kitchens, feeding particularly on grains and cereals
Coloured scanning electron micrograph of the head of a Silverfish (Lepisma saccharina). This primitive insect has remained unchanged for millions of years, and is considered a living fossil