The zebra longwing butterfly's orange egg contains cyanide and other toxins ingested by adults from the plants they eat. The images were made with a scanning electron microscope, which uses beams ...

Day to day, it might be tempting to take plants for granted. But you'd do so at your peril; our leafy brethren are staggeringly complex, as revealed when they're put under the microscope.

In experiments under his microscope at home, a teenage researcher discovered a very unusual talent in a species of tiny insect that usually lays eggs on the inside of a tough plant growth.

At first glance, the image (seen below) might look like a sci-fi plant structure ... took about three hours of precise observation under the microscope to capture the right moment, involving ...