#bark louse

Either way my little friend is very striking once I pulled out the good camera to get up close shots!

(Sorry if this is a bother I'm just so glad there are people with blogs here who appreciate the discovery of bugs I've never seen before 😭 Our biodiversity in my localized area has been dropping so much and it's been exciting to see how much change has happened since we finally had new neighbors move in who agreed to stop mowing a patch of the shared yard and let things just grow back natural!)

Bark Louse in Ohio:

I mean, it looks like the common Bark Louse, Metylophorus novaescotiae, family Psocidae, to me.

Sometimes called "Tree Cattle".

Really cool photos, thank for sharing.

Photo by Tony Eales, who found it in Brisbane and posted it to Facebook.

The psocids ( also known as bark lice and book lice ) are small to minute insects not often noticed, with large mobile head, threadlike antennae, and wings held tent-like over the body, in those species that actually have wings. Some of the minute wingless species are minor pests of stored grain, wallpaper glue, and book binding, hence the name booklice, but the rest eat fungi, algae, lichen and detritus on the trunks of trees, and hide under bark. One species was recently found to actually bores into wood. 

Last decade morphological and genetic studies proved that the parasitic lice actually evolved from within the Psocoptera, so the Psocoptera and Phthiraptera are now in the superorder Psocodea.