sunburnt critters

In case you ever wondered how these little critters that I hunt under the ice look like, here is a taste:



Here comes some more:



Aren't they cute? And whoa, wasn't it so that they were getting sunburnt every spring? Remember what I rambled on about in
my previous post on that subject?



Well, I eventually worked out a method to establish whether they did get a sunburn or at least a tan. Turns out, some of them even "eat" and accumulate some sort of "sun lotion" (okay, I realize that the picture of a tiny invertebrate rubbing lotion on its exoskeleton with a claw is pushing it too far...) and guess what, they even have learnt the value of antioxidants...