A surreal photo posted online of a moustache-wearing insect has left the internet perplexed.

Commenters struggled to make sense of the bizarre close-up after the image, taken by leading scanning electron microscopist Steve Gschmeissner, was posted to Reddit this week.

The picture is actually of a mosquito’s foot at 800x magnification.

Gschmeissner told Live Science: ‘Insects are fantastic for that because they have all this sort of fine microscopic details.

‘When you first put something in a microscope, you are never really sure what you’re going to see.’

The photo was part of the 2016 Royal Photography Society International Images for Science contest, but didn’t win.

Gschmeissner continued: ‘I’m lucky that I do something I love.

‘When you first put something in a microscope, you are never really sure what you’re going to see. You still see things you don’t expect to see.’

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by Martine Berg

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