Klein en oeroud

Small and ancient

Fleas, lice and the quiet old orders: mayflies, lacewings and het zilvervisje. Hover a picture, or tap it on a phone, to hear the name.

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Image credits

Photographs and drawings come from Wikimedia Commons and are reproduced under the licences below. All have been resized and converted to WebP for this site; they are otherwise unaltered.

de vlo — Flea.JPG by Erturac, CC BY-SA 3.0
de hoofdluis — Male_human_head_louse.jpg by Gilles San Martin, CC BY-SA 2.0
de stofluis — Scaly-winged_Barklouse_(28572463783).jpg by Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA, CC BY 2.0
de trips — Frankliniella sp. - Guelph, Ontario 2017-06-21 (02).jpg by Ryan Hodnett, CC BY-SA 4.0
het zilvervisje — LepismaSaccharina.jpg by Christian Fischer, CC BY-SA 3.0
het ovenvisje — Firebrat_(Thermobia_domestica).jpg by KyleCMSmith, CC BY-SA 4.0
het papiervisje — Gray_silverfish_-_Ctenolepisma_longicaudata.jpg by Rene Sylvestersen, CC BY-SA 4.0
de eendagsvlieg — Rhithrogena_germanica_subimago_on_Equisetum_hyemale.jpg by Richard Bartz, CC BY-SA 2.5
de steenvlieg — Eusthenia_sp.jpg by JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/), CC BY-SA 3.0
de kokerjuffer — Trichoptera_caddisfly_1.jpg by Bruce Marlin, CC BY-SA 2.5
de gaasvlieg — Chrysopa_perla_02.jpg by James K. Lindsey, CC BY-SA 3.0
de mierenleeuw — Distoleon_tetragrammicus01.jpg by Entomart, Attribution
de schorpioenvlieg — Panorpa_communis_with_prey_Diogma_glabrata_glabrata.jpg by Richard Bartz, CC BY-SA 2.5
de kameelhalsvlieg — Dichrostigma_flavipes_beentree.jpg by Beentree, CC BY-SA 3.0
de elzenvlieg — Sialidae_-_Sialis_sp..JPG by Hectonichus, CC BY-SA 3.0