Velvet Worm - Peripatidae
Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador
Scolopocryptops sexspinosus
Centipedes can be excellent mothers. Here, a bark centipede guards her offspring in a rotting log. South Bristol, New York, USA.
Geophilomorph centipede
Mother with eggs. Sierra Nevada, California, USA.
Stone centipede
Eurymerodesmus
A colorful flat-backed millipede. Austin, Texas, USA.
Disturbed by the photographer, a flat-backed millipede rolls into a protective ball. Austin, Texas, USA.
Oxidus gracilis
A mass of introduced greenhouse millipedes in a fungus. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas, USA.
The greenhouse millipede, recognized by the transverse sutures along each segment, is an Asian species that has become common worldwide. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas, USA.
Sphaeriodesmidae
A flat-backed millipede rolls up into a perfect pill for self-defense. Cayo District, Belize.
Molting Isopod
Armadillidium
Urbana, Illinois, USA
Isotoma
Austin, Texas, USA.
Entomobryidae
Slender springtail. Northern California, USA.
Collembola
Ant nest collembola
Urbana, Illinois, USA.
Onychiuridae
Onychiurid springtails. Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Portrait of a springtail.
Campodeidae
Illinois, USA.
Campodeidae - Diplura
Illinois, USA
Meinertellidae
Jumping bristletail. Hastings Reserve, Carmel Valley, California, USA.
The oldest insect order of all is the primitively wingless Archaeognatha, the jumping bristletails. California, USA.
Machilidae
Looking slightly like a land lobster, a jumping bristletail lays her eggs in the soil. Stebbins Reserve, California, USA.
California, USA
Nicoletiidae
A blind silverfish runs through the tunnels of a Tetramorium pavement ant colony. Many silverfish are associated with ant nests. Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.
