Bizarre, beautiful insect images made from 8,000 photos - CNET

"I will light and shoot just one antenna, then I will move on to the eye and the lighting setup will change entirely to suit the texture and contours of that part of the body," Biss said in a statement. He then painstakingly puts the best images together in one photograph using Photoshop. "Most of my final images are made up of between 8,000 and 10,000 images," he said. Each image takes between two and three weeks of work.

Twenty-four of the final images will appear in the exhibit, and they're displayed bigger than even the bugs in your worst nightmares. A 10-millimeter insect is shown as a 3-meter (9.8-foot) print, with the real bug on view right along with it.

Can't make it to Oxford? You can see some of them in our gallery and zoom into them further online. Hollywood B-movie directors wish they'd had these monsters on set.