Nikon announced the winners of the 2013 Small World Photomicrography Competition, which is basically a collection of the best images of things you can only see under a light microscope. Here are some of the incredible and creepy shots taken:

1. Worker ant taken by Dimitri Seeboruth


2. A parasitic wasp larva on the abdomen of a spider by Geir Drange (5x)


3. A mouse foot showing blood vessels, immune cells and soft tissue. By Dr. Andrew J. Woolley, Himanshi Desai and Dr. Kevin Otto


4. Mites on a beetle by Nikola Rahme


5. This spiky ball of color is actually a 100x view of a fern sorus taken by Dr. Igor Siwanowicz


6. This is a rabbit embryo photographed by Dr. Gabriel G. Marins and Rob Bryson-Richardson


7. Here's a fish egg cluster by Dr. Jaime Gomez-Gutierrez