I want to have students in my non-bio majors labs looking more insects that they collect and I’ve learned the best way for that to happen is for me to just start doing it myself.  I set up a small pit trap in my back yard with a tiny solo cup and some isopropanol last week.  Left it out for ~ 24 hours and had maybe 20 insects – mostly Collembola, some ants and other assorted beauties.  Microscope is a small dissecting scope I won at a teaching conference with a max mag of 4x.

Collembola, my Seek app says its in the Family Tomoceridae – looks right to me.

I’m going to guess the one on the right is a Hymenopteran – that’s all I got.

Fun fact about Collembola – they don’t have compound eyes like other insects.

References

(1) https://collemboles.fr/en/morphology-and-physiology/61-eye-plates-of-springtails.html