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Photographs and videos

Gates, P. 2010. Some like it hot: the firebrat Thermobia domestica. Beyond the Human Eye blogspot. http://beyondthehumaneye.blogspot.com/2010/01/some-like-it-hot-firebrat-thermobia.html

Funnel, R. 2005. Firebrat (Thermobia domestica?). Photographs of Invertebrates
http://audilab.bme.mcgill.ca/~funnell/photos/