Ticks don’t merely insert their horrifying mouthparts into you; they dig their way in via flesh-ripping hooks and then anchor themselves with a proboscis that’s studded with barbs—the little ...

Mosquitoes, ticks, lice, kissing bugs and tsetse flies ... At first glance, it looks simple -- this mosquito digging her proboscis into us. But the tools she’s using here are sophisticated.

From top to bottom, left to right, the images show: the cross section of a lily bud; the proboscis of a blowfly; a sheep tick; a diatom; a section through the human scalp; and a vertical ...