ID request-What are these guys?

[RogerRabbit]

Pictures taken through the stereo zoom microscope at 35X. Collected by placing a sheet of printer paper above the bottom board of the hive overnight.

The critter in the third pic is munching on either honey or comb that has spilled to the bottom. Bear in mind, these 'creatures' are only a fraction of a mm long. They're smaller than mites. The grass is fairly tall near the hives and I'm wondering if they just wandered in that way, by climbing the grass and entering.
RR

http://www.mushroomvideos.com/images/hive_3_parasite_1.jpg
http://www.mushroomvideos.com/images/hive_3_parasite_2.jpg
http://www.mushroomvideos.com/images/Image4.jpg

[KQ6AR]

I'm not getting a photo on either link. Just a mushroom

There working good now

[RogerRabbit]

Oh, sorry. I guess you have to be logged in over there. They showed for me. I'll try again. They're about 1/4 mm in length. Is there a server here to upload the pictures to? I see them fine on my machine.
RR
http://files.shroomery.org/files/09-25/533958169-hive_3_parasite_1.jpg][image]http://www.shroomery.org/forums/thumbs/09-25/533958169-thumb_hive_3_parasite_1.jpg

http://files.shroomery.org/files/09-25/533958188-hive_3_parasite_2.jpg][image]http://www.shroomery.org/forums/thumbs/09-25/533958188-thumb_hive_3_parasite_2.jpg

[KQ6AR]

I just put mine on a free photobucket.com account.

[Oldbee]

RogerR: You can copy the URL address from properties on the red X and paste it here. It doesn't work for me to R click and then L click on "show picture". I will let you do that.

The shape of the 'bug' looks somewhat like a silverfish, but I don't think that's what it is.

[manymongrels]

Looks more like an earwig nymph -- but w/o the back pincers.....

[manymongrels]

Actually it looks like a mayfly nymph, but mayfly nymphs live in water.

[RogerRabbit]

Interesting. They're about half the size of a grain of sand. Without the microscope, they're just tiny dots, but there was hundreds of them on a piece of printer paper left on the hive bottom board overnight. This is my worst performing hive is why I looked. I only found one varroa mite on the paper, but it was obvious. It's these little buggers that have me worried. They move around too. I have a video I took of them, but would probably have to upload it to my own website to get it to play.
RR

[Dave Burrup]

My vote is silver fish. If they were greyish I would be positive, but I have not seen them brown before. They are debree feeders, eating bee parts dropped pollen.
Dave

[Oldbee]

Here is a 'brown' one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lepisma_saccharina.jpg It has 9 segments [8-9?] to the abdomen but it has a 'prong' in the center that is missing from RogerR's photo. Could it be a very young/small/nymph silverfish to be 'grain of sand size'?

[Flyman]

Ageee with ManyMongrels. Looks like a Mayfly nymph. I have lots of them but my hives are near a Pond. Can't tell that they ever caused any damage.