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The stunning pictures of sleeping insects covered in early morni. By Daily Mail Reporter Created: 13:28 GMT, 26 March 2010 Glistening in the early morning, these insects look like creatures from another planet as dew gathers on their sleeping bodies. Captured in extreme close-up, one moth appears to be totally encrusted in diamonds as it rests on a twig. Stunning: Droplets of water bead on the head of this blue dragonfly as it slumbers on a leaf Dragonflies, flies and beetles also take on an unearthly quality as the water droplets form on them.

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