One beetle, it seems. Klaus Bolte’s 40 X photograph is one of National Geographic‘s Best Microscopic Images of 2008.
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7 thoughts on “How many leaf beetles can dance on the head of a pin?”
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It would depend on the style of dancing too…
If they’re doing The Bug, maybe two of them could fit. Not much room for manoeuvre though.
Acrobatic rock would need to be VERY acrobatic.
And on a different topic, I thought of you today because I noticed that the statue in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele sported some fine young men struggling with bits of tentacles …
http://flickr.com/photos/spacedlaw/2964967340/
Some information about the fountain can be found here:
http://www.romasegreta.it/esquilino/piazzavittorioemanuele.htm
(in Italian only sadly) Apparently, the mix of octopus with a triton caused the naturally sarcastic people of Rome to nickname the group as “fritto misto”…
Heh, thanks Nathalie. I actually walked near there but would have missed it anyway, being more attracted by the bigger buildings. And the sarcastic name seem fitting when it’s close to “Zuppa Inglese”.
Dammit, we used the exact same title for our posts. ;) I guess it was kinda obvious, wasn’t it? And I shouldn’t be surprised we used the same image, too. Sigh.
Heh, yes, it’s rather inevitable given the picture.