If you’re a late sleeper, or a casual observer at the start of your day, physiotherapist Miroslaw Swietek has, both, gotten the jump on you, And brought it all back, alive, for you in a set of crisply (as fresh lettuce is crisp) photographed fuzzy, sharp clawed, alien-eyed creatures. The following blog post contains some of his -and some of two other photographers- images from similar frontiers:
http://bestiarumvocabulum.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/bejeweled-insects/