A bright white arthropod with 22 legs and long, pearly antennae crawls around the fine grains of a piece of wet cedar. The animal is very tiny, and the camera view is extremely close.

A symphylan! These are a secretive group of myriapods, a sister group to millipedes and centipedes. They are usually quite small and hard to find.

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