What is this creature?
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Was doing research stuff on freshwater amphipods and one of my samples had these little six legged critters floating on the water surface.
They are about 1 to 2 mm long. Found at lake Waihola newzealand. Are they some sort of insect larval stage?
Photo was taken through the lens of a dissecting microscope.
Here is a video. It is very shaky. It was difficult to take a stable video, as I was recording this with a tablet camera.
https://youtu.be/qloXtJoXfkw
I have also included a picture of an amphipod infected by parasite maritrema poulini, shown as a black circle within the body.
first is a springtail
>>2126783
Thank you anon. It does look like some sort of springtail. They look quite creepy.
>>2126780
I know they are incredibly pests but it's pitty cute.
>>2126814
Itty bitty eyes and itty bitty hairs.
>>2126780
JESUS FUCK THAT BUGS HUGE
LOOK AT IT JUST RESTING ON THE MOON
oh wait, false alarm
>>2126814
>pests
They're really not that bad. A small subset cause issues.
