I saw this spider the other day and am reasonably happy with how it turned out.
SpiderEF7A4092 by davholla2002, on Flickr
At my parents house in South London/North Kent, I turned over a stone to photograph the ant woodlice and saw these 2 insects which in 20+ years of looking under stones there I have never seen before.
A) They were not cooperative
B) I got a migraine so only took 2 photos
So the quality is not very good, however as they are so unusual I thought that I would share them, any ideas what they are?
Unknown EF7A3896 by davholla2002, on Flickr
Two unknowns EF7A3895.CR2 by davholla2002, on Flickr
A spider and some strange insects
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Re: A spider and some strange insects
The general appearance suggests to me an immature "root aphid", perhaps some sort of Phylloxera .davholla wrote:any ideas what they are?
What you have are almost certainly not true aphids because they have no visible cornicles .
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Re: A spider and some strange insects
Thanks for that presumably they are farmed by the L Flavus ants.rjlittlefield wrote:The general appearance suggests to me an immature "root aphid", perhaps some sort of Phylloxera .davholla wrote:any ideas what they are?
What you have are almost certainly not true aphids because they have no visible cornicles .
--Rik
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The white one in pic 3 is most likely collembola, really diverse looking critters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springtail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springtail