A bug's life: Photographer captures flies in exquisite detail by snapping each one 687 times through a microscope

If you are scared of creepy crawlies you might want to look away now.

These are the remarkable close-up photographs of flies composed by stitching together up to 687 separate images taken through a microscope.

Tomas Rak photographs a tiny area of the fly under a microscope before moving it a mere five hundredth of a millimetre and taking another snap.

It can take a staggering 687 movements and 'micro-photographs' to capture every part of the fly in such stunning detail.

Close up: The head of dung beetle, which is a type of earth-boring dung beetle. Its entire body is only 10mm long

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