[Taxacom] image of the week

[Stephen Thorpe]

I won't win any photography competitions, I know, but this is a kind of "nice" nature in action shot:
http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mite_larvae_on_cave_weta.jpg
It may come as a surprise to some that mites undergo metamorphosis, and often have six-legged larvae. Here is another mite larva of a different species, more obviously hexapod:
http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prostigmata_larva.jpg

Stephen