Story highlights Microscopes reveal amazing portraits of household insects

Daniel Kariko's photos include boll weevils, carpet beetles, moths, ants and earwigs

(CNN) Photographer Daniel Kariko uses tweezers to pose his subjects. The creatures he photographs aren't exactly what you might call photogenic.

Other possible ways to describe them: scary or fascinating. Also, beautiful.

"They kind of look like characters you might meet in the cantina scene in 'Star Wars,' " Kariko said.

Whatever you think of his subjects, Kariko's photos reveal the faces of our invisible roommates: common household insects.

Since 2012, Kariko has been creating amazing portraits of tiny monsters many Americans live with every day, including boll weevils, carpet beetles, moths, wheel bugs, ants and earwigs.

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