Hitchhiker

One day while I was at the cottage, I decided it was perfect light to shoot some insects. I went out to the dock and lakefront areas. Nothing. I walked over to a little fern meadow. Nothing. I did find a nice bright red maple leaf. As I leaned over to frame the leaf I felt this slight twitch on my left arm. After giving up on the leaf I noticed my new friend. He (she?) was really quite content to stay there. I continued on my mission but only found some mushrooms to shoot. After more than 15 minutes, Nancy came out to see what I was up to. My friendship quickly ended when Nancy became the new host to this hitchhiker. She wasn't quite so patient and shook it off in all of about 30 seconds. Moral of the story, don't be in such a hurry to find things. Sometimes its better to let them find you.



My friend was less than 1 cm tall, maybe 2 - 3 cm in length (not including those long stringy things).  Unless you zoom in on his head, what you see as his eyes are really fake eyes.  This compound eyes are very plain looking.  However check out the legs - red rings.