image of the month

Cabbage white caterpillars are the scourge of vegetable gardeners at this time of year, but the eggs can be very beautiful. This month's image is a scanning electron micrograph of some cabbage white eggs on the underside of a brassica leaf. The sample was coated with gold, and the image recorded in high vacuum mode by Peter Harris on EMLab's Quanta SEM. It was colourised using Photoshop.