Chaoborus

....or Phantom Midge larva.





Pentax K5, 100mm. D FA Macro, Tamron 1.4x extender.

Built a small tank with microscope 25x76 slides to photograph this in.
Seems to have worked....


Single shot, handheld, manual focus, diffused flash

Elements 11.

Thanks for looking,

Roger.

That looks other-worldly, excellent shot

Great image - your little setup has worked excellently.

If one didn't know how small it is, those fangs look as though they could envenomate an ox!

Out of this world, like an alien! Weird it has massive fangs but the tail fin of a delicate ballerina