--- title: See Mesmerising Macro-Photos of Everyday Insects description: Software architect Vasily Menshov takes intricate macro-photographs of insects from Russia, Indonesia, Spain and the Dominican Republic canonical: https://time.com/4262965/macro-photos-insects/ author: TIME Photo article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-17T16:57:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:15.417Z article:section: Science og:title: These Photos Show Everyday Insects in Terrifying Closeups og:description: Just be glad you're thousands of times bigger than them og:url: https://time.com/4262965/macro-photos-insects/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte484f0463bd44eaa/69888b62196cf4990403ac81/insects-macro-photography-male-wolf-spider.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Macro photos of insects, Moscow, Russia - Mar 2016 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Photos Show Everyday Insects in Terrifying Closeups twitter:description: Just be glad you're thousands of times bigger than them twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte484f0463bd44eaa/69888b62196cf4990403ac81/insects-macro-photography-male-wolf-spider.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # These Photos Show Everyday Insects in Terrifying Closeups by [TIME Photo](/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Mar 17, 2016 4:57 PM CUT  Male wolf spider Male wolf spiderVasily Menshov—Solent News/REX/Shutterstock by [TIME Photo](/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Mar 17, 2016 4:57 PM CUT  Male wolf spider Vasily Menshov—Solent News/REX/Shutterstock  Female european rhinoceros beetle Vasily Menshov—Solent News/REX/Shutterstock  Skipper butterfly Vasily Menshov—Solent News/REX/Shutterstock  Male mosquito Vasily Menshov—Solent News/REX/Shutterstock  Moth Vasily Menshov—Solent News/REX/Shutterstock  Female wolf spider Vasily Menshov—Solent News/REX/Shutterstock  Hoverfly Vasily Menshov—Solent News/REX/Shutterstock  Larvae of a tortoise beetle Vasily Menshov—Solent News/REX/Shutterstock  Common house fly Vasily Menshov—Solent News/REX/Shutterstock  Bumblebee Vasily Menshov—Solent News/REX/Shutterstock  Moth Vasily Menshov—Solent News/REX/Shutterstock  Wasp Vasily Menshov—Solent News/REX/Shutterstock ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4262965/macro-photos-insects/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4262965/macro-photos-insects/"},"headline":"These Photos Show Everyday Insects in Terrifying Closeups","datePublished":"2016-03-17T16:57:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:15.417Z","description":"Software architect Vasily Menshov takes intricate macro-photographs of insects from Russia, Indonesia, Spain and the Dominican Republic","url":"https://time.com/4262965/macro-photos-insects/","keywords":["russia","Science topic","photography","bugs","Insects"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte484f0463bd44eaa/69888b62196cf4990403ac81/insects-macro-photography-male-wolf-spider.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Photo","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-photo/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte484f0463bd44eaa/69888b62196cf4990403ac81/insects-macro-photography-male-wolf-spider.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Macro photos of insects, Moscow, Russia - Mar 2016","caption":"Macro photos of insects, Moscow, Russia - Mar 2016","creditText":"Vasily Menshov—Solent News/REX/Shutterstock","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4262965/macro-photos-insects/","name":"These Photos Show Everyday Insects in Terrifying Closeups"}}]}] ```