Ted Kinsman is a scientific photographer that specializes in creating images for books, magazines, and television. His particular areas of interest are in x-ray radiography, high-speed photography, Scanning electron microscopy, and time-lapse cinematography. His work has appeared in numerous books and magazines ranging from Discover Magazine to Forbes. Recently his work has appeared on Gray's Anatomy and CSI New York. In addition to running 
B.N. (Bobbie) Sullivan has a strong affinity for the sea and everything in it. She first learned to dive in 1970 and has since logged thousands of dives. A wish to document the marine life she encountered prompted her to learn underwater photography more than 20 years ago. More recently, she began to write about the marine life she has photographed. A research psychologist by profession, she approaches her subject matter with the mindset of a scientist, but targets her writing to a general readership in whom she hopes to foster an appreciation for the ocean and its inhabitants.
B Jefferson Bolender is Training Coordinator of the State of Arizona's
program for disability awareness and assistive technology. Through
her travels she always has a camera at hand to photograph everything
from people to technology and nature. As a teacher of elementary
education, special education and art, her interests include a wide
array of subject matter with an emphasis on documentation with an
artist's eye.
Steve Jurvetson enjoys rocketry and photography and especially the pursuit of both in the Black Rock Desert. Some action photos and video links can be found 
Alex Wild is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he works on the molecular phylogenetics of various groups of insects. He is also a part-time photographer whose images appear in such venues as Ranger Rick, Smithsonian, BBC Wildlife, and even ScienceBlogs.
An Amblyopone oregonensis huntress delivers a paralyzing dose of venom to a centipede. This lets the ant larvae consume it alive later, at their leisure. Ow. Ow, Ow. Yes, that is the stinger you see, sunk deep into the head.
A cricket is impaled on the mandibles of a Malagasy trap-jaw ant, Odontomachus coquereli. That's gotta hurt.
Mantids don't wait for their prey to expire before they tear them to pieces.
An aphid receives the egg of a braconid wasp (Aphidius ervi).
But that's probably better than getting your innards suddenly schlorped out by a syrphid fly larva.
Life Science
Comments
Great shots...that must be some great feeling when you got the first and the fourth shots. I wish i had more candidates around here to get some like these.
Posted by: Tom | April 16, 2009 12:29 PM
The wasp shot wasn't actually that bad. Their behavior is predictable enough that if you watch them at work for a bit you'll be able to anticipate oviposition, and the event itself lasts long enough (maybe a second?) to stand a good chance of getting it.
Posted by: Alex | April 16, 2009 1:15 PM
Awesome! added to my RSS, can't wait to see more.
Posted by: Patrick | April 16, 2009 2:47 PM
Amblyopone in action is quite impressive. It takes a lot of moxie to be a specialist predator on centipedes!
I've seen a mantid take a monarch butterfly in flight. I was watching the butterfly come in for a landing on a milkweed flower, when suddenly it seemed to flap itself inside out and hang motionless in midair. A big mantid had been perched on the plant, parallel to the stem, and it grabbed the butterfly before the latter had a chance to touch down.
Also saw a mantid hang out on a thistle plant and grab a nectaring bumble bee. Zorak is a mighty hunter!
Posted by: Julie Stahlhut | April 16, 2009 5:18 PM
Awesome shots!! Hopefully I will be able to get some great mantis feeding shot's soon.
Posted by: Eric | April 16, 2009 8:49 PM
Well alex, perhaps you should watch the cat with the mouse (and other predator mammals) more frequently before expressing such 'rather not be' statements!
Posted by: jobin | April 16, 2009 11:16 PM
Most predatory mammals aren't that bothered about checking for a pulse before they chow down either.
Posted by: Dunc | April 17, 2009 7:53 AM
What's all this talk about mammals? Boooooooooooooring.........
Posted by: Alex | April 17, 2009 11:47 AM
In my opinion the largest threat for California are cataclysms and ecological catastrophes. Not important is how many money we have because one tragedy can us take all.
Posted by: alufelgi | April 19, 2009 4:10 AM