It’s “less” frightening when you realize those red things aren’t the eyes, and the “teeth” are more like a mustache for its mandibles; like the other pictures in the comments that show them better
Is no one going to comment on the “magnified five times under a microscope”? Five times? What kind of weak, low refraction plastic lens, cost of bubblegum microscope are you using to magnify your enormous monster ants?
Browsing on a 32" monitor, “I wonder how they handle cat-sized ants where ever that’s from”.
This picture is kind of misleading though. Much of the photo’s creepiness comes from mistakenly assimilating the red dots to its eyes. Ants have those big familiar insect eyes we are familiar with. Quote from Snopes:
This is a closeup of a section of the ant’s face but not the full face. In a text message, Kavaliauskas [the photographer] told us, “This is just the front part of the portrait […] the eyes are already in the shadow area. […] if the eyes are illuminated, all the mystery disappears and the photograph appears ordinary and uninteresting.”
Thanking nature because of the ant face and not how it will gank up on you, inject you with paralysing venom, and tear you apart?
And it’s not like a giant ant would not be still terrifying:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bullant_head_detail.jpg
Elden Ring ants support this
