Title: Trichobothridium, the eye of box mites The majority of ground-dwelling animals do not have a sophisticated visual and hearing organ, however they has been perfectly adapted to the life in soil. They replaced hearing and seeing with a variety of sensing hairs, hence they can sense chemical and physical stimuli from the environment. The picture shows the main sensory organ (also known trichobothridium) of a member of box mites (Dameus sp., Oribatida) in 1,300 times magnification. The photograph was taken by the scanning electron microscope Hitachi S-4700 with 70 times magnification and has been colored in Adobe Photoshop.