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Some of the most impressive pics in my giant "animals" folder, for your enjoyment, starting with some mites on the head of a fly.
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Baby Lumpsuckers
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Fetus of a star-nosed mole.
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Striped Horsefly (one of the most beautiful blood-sucking animals)
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A pair of swimming abyssal sea-slugs.
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Live lobster larvae (naturally paper-thin)
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Giant sea cucumber, defecating.
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I want one of these. They become big, beautiful horned beetles but I'm really more interested in owning a gigantic grubworm (which lives a good few years before its short adult stage)
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That looks like a monster from an RPG.
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Tasty.
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facehuggers?
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I want a pet Lobster.
Somebody go and genetically engineer them to walk on land.
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Thank you. Your pictures were awesome.
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Spoiler: These guys (different species, same basic creature) also live in your EYELASHES.

In fact, its a specific species that ONLY lives in HUMAN EYELASHES. They keep your eyes free of bad junk, they're actually quite helpful little symbiotes...
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How AWFUL. We are so shocked.
Pic: Demodex folliculorum, a follicle mite. Usually harmless.
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carrion worm from D&D
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ever time you rub your eyes a symbiote dies.
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I'm amazed by people who sometimes freak out when they learn about follicle mites. Life exists everywhere...how can anyone think their body is devoid of fauna? All sorts of harmless hitchhikers and symbiotes live in and on us alongside parasites most people never know they have.
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Here have some more. I have 30 or 40 megabytes of this stuff.

Giant pillbugs and pill millipedes are sometimes available as pets but don't live long in captivity. Noone is totally sure why they die, but it's believed to be an unknown dietary need. They're two totally unrelated creatures, but physically almost identical and present the same problem to captive rearing...very cool parallel evolution.
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Deer tick mouthparts.
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A deep sea amphipod.
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A llama louse. The long neck is an adaptation for reaching through the host's thick hair.
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lol dongs
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One the world's largest species of brine shrimp. Would make sea monkey kits a LOT more exciting. They have the same type of life cycle, with eggs that can survive for decades in dry conditions. They're predatory of smaller crustaceans.
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A spider's spinnerets, weaving a single strand of silk.
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An aquatic snail that suffered a shell injury and started using the new opening.
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flapjack octopus.
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Hookworm
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You're telling me I have more friends than I first thought? Awesome! Do you know how many lives on an avarage person's eyelashes? I need to know how many pet names I need to come up with.
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Why do the striped housefly's eyes have that pattern?
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I'm not sure. It may just be how human eyes perceive the light reflecting off them.
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I guess this is a true pic? Always thougt mites were even smaller
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mites are closely related to spiders, so they are not THAT small.
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Actually, Ticks are nothing more than the very largest of all mites. One of the tiniest is the tracheal mite, which lives *inside* the breathing trachea of insects (which are thinner than human hairs)
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in before lamprey
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Funfact the word Lamprey means "good mother".