Spider veins are tiny, thin veins that can be seen very close to the skinâs surface. They look like red, blue, or green spider webs just beneath the skin. Sometimes they are also described as looking like marble. Spider veins are caused by a backup of blood. These become nonfunctional, âdead-endâ veins.
While the fairy fly is the worldâs smallest insect, there a few runners up! For example, the feather wing beetle is only .25 millimeters long. Some scientists think these beetles may even be smaller than fairy flies, but for now, the fairy fly is considered by many to be the âsmallest insect!â.
Mycoplasma gallicepticum, a parasitic bacterium which lives in the primate bladder, waste disposal organs, genital, and respiratory tracts, is thought to be the smallest known organism capable of independent growth and reproduction. The cell in the work is known as mycoplasma. Its diameter is 0.0001 mm. The smallest cell in the human body is the sperm cell. Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) is a bacterium belonging to the class Mollicutes and the family Mycoplasmataceae. It is the causative agent of chronic respiratory disease (CRD) in chickens and infectious sinusitis in turkeys, chickens, game birds, pigeons, and passerine birds of all ages.