Taking first place this time round is Ralph Grimm from Queensland, Australia, who captured this image of the eye of a honey bee covered in dandelion pollen.

Using a highly detailed electron scanning microscope, ... Therefore, we show this wild dandelion pollen has evolved over many generations to create an optimal shape for attaching to pollinators." ...

Keep scrolling to browse the 20 best microscope images of 2015. Eye of a honey bee covered in dandelion pollen. Magnified 120 times. Ralph Claus Grimm/Nikon Small World ...

The competition focuses, logically, on photomicrography, which is basically capturing images at a very small scale using a microscope. In creating his winning shot, Grimm zoomed in on the bee's ...

A new exhibition - ‘the Wonder of Pollen’ - displayed across eight panels at Harlow Carr makes use of 3-D models and ultra-high-magnification images from scanning electron microscopy to reveal ...

image: A microscopic view of spiny pollen from a native wild dandelion species in the southern Rocky Mountains. view more Credit: University of Missouri Have pollen.