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This tiny, spindly, mite is often to be seen running rapidly around on rotten wood, tree bark,etc. It constantly waves its front legs around, using them much like antennae, mainly touching the substrate ahead of it. They are usually very difficult to photograph.
I was tracking a Dicyrtoma with my lens when two white legs entered the frame momentarily. The first image shows an adult, which looks just like the coloured illustration in the original description of L. motatorius. The other two show an immature, less-coloured individual. The pink blob, on the left, in the latter images is the rear, OOF, of the Dicytoma.
EM-1, x2 TC (4/3) Olympus 4/3 50mm f2 at f11 (f22 effective), Raynox MSN-202 supplementary, triple TTL off-camera flash, hand-held.
The FOV was 5mm wide, cropped to ca 4mm in the first image and a little less in the others.
Harold
Harold Gough 2017
Harold Gough 2017
Harold Gough 2017
Edited on Mar 28, 2017 at 03:39 AM · View previous versions
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