Barnorama All Fun In The Barn
You’d never guess it, but these 15 microscopic critters are quietly living around us, thriving in places we’d never think to look.
Microscope mites that live on your face.
Microscopic aquatic creatures that use a long and slender stalk to attach itself to objects in the water.
Tiny creatures are actually a type of algae that live in freshwater. They have an eye-like structure that helps them detect light.
A microscopic phytoplankton.
Microscopic organisms that glide around using minute spines, giving them their name hairy-backs, or hairybellies.
A type of microscopic arachnid.
A free-living transparent nematode about 1 mm in length that lives in temperate soil environments.
Tiny single-celled algae that live in freshwater and saltwater that produce forty-percent of the oxygen we breath.
They were first discovered by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them water bears.
A type of rotifer only found in the leaves of Sarracenia purpurea.
A microscopic arachnid mite.
Mites that live on cheeses such as Milbenkäse, Cantal and Mimolette, and contribute to the flavor and texture.
Commonly called bristle worms, they are mainly found in the marine environment, from shallow waters down to the depths of deep-sea trenches.
