Up close, and by that we mean extremely close, a spider's skin is richly textured. It's full of spiky hairs and no matter how you look at it, it's almost like art!

Here is an electron microscope photo taken by Maria Barbajo, and it appears on electron microscope supplier FEI Company's Flickr photostream. FEI also has loads of amazing microscopic images too, so check out their stream after the jump later on.

[FEI Company via Radiolab]