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  1. πŸ’πŸ»β€β™€οΈ ICYMI: πŸ”¬πŸŒΈ Japanese #nature photographer Pendora (ぺんどら) captures tiny globular #springtails measuring around 0.3 mm in length.

    These wetland micro-arthropods display face-to-face courtship interactions and use a spring-loaded tail organ called a furcula to execute high-speed jumps that look like #teleportation.

    πŸ‘‰ Learn more: seethis.tv/post/odoriko-tobimu

    #animals #arthropods #biology #cute #hexapod #macro #mating #microscopy #physics #science #wetlands #insects #macrophotography #japan #microbiology #wildlife #entomology #photography #zoology #tksst #video

  2. πŸ’πŸ»β€β™€οΈ ICYMI: πŸ”¬πŸŒΈ Japanese #nature photographer Pendora (ぺんどら) captures tiny globular #springtails measuring around 0.3 mm in length.

    These wetland micro-arthropods display face-to-face courtship interactions and use a spring-loaded tail organ called a furcula to execute high-speed jumps that look like #teleportation.

    πŸ‘‰ Learn more: seethis.tv/post/odoriko-tobimu

    #animals #arthropods #biology #cute #hexapod #macro #mating #microscopy #physics #science #wetlands #insects #macrophotography #japan #microbiology #wildlife #entomology #photography #zoology #tksst #video

  3. πŸ’πŸ»β€β™€οΈ ICYMI: πŸ”¬πŸŒΈ Japanese #nature photographer Pendora (ぺんどら) captures tiny globular #springtails measuring around 0.3 mm in length.

    These wetland micro-arthropods display face-to-face courtship interactions and use a spring-loaded tail organ called a furcula to execute high-speed jumps that look like #teleportation.

    πŸ‘‰ Learn more: seethis.tv/post/odoriko-tobimu

    #animals #arthropods #biology #cute #hexapod #macro #mating #microscopy #physics #science #wetlands #insects #macrophotography #japan #microbiology #wildlife #entomology #photography #zoology #tksst #video

  4. πŸ’πŸ»β€β™€οΈ NEW: πŸ”¬πŸŒΈ Japanese #nature photographer Pendora (ぺんどら) captures tiny globular #springtails measuring around 0.3 mm in length.

    These wetland micro-arthropods display face-to-face courtship interactions and use a spring-loaded tail organ called a furcula to execute high-speed jumps that look like #teleportation.

    πŸ‘‰ Learn more: seethis.tv/post/odoriko-tobimu

    #animals #arthropods #biology #cute #hexapod #macro #mating #microscopy #physics #science #wetlands #insects #macrophotography #japan #microbiology #wildlife #entomology #photography #zoology #tksst #video

  5. Some of the tiny critters that I've found in our gravel driveway:

    These are springtails of the genus Seira, and possibly Seira ferrarii according to a springtail expert on iNaturalist

    Springtails are tiny six-legged arthropods that aren't insects

    #springtails #arthropods #hexapods #DrivewayBugs

  6. Apologies for the poor pictures, but here's a little bee-mimicking robber fly, after and before catching a tiny bee for dinner. I followed this wily hunter around for quite a while, and he wasn't pleased with my interference so he didn't let me get very close.

  7. Feeding traces on #fossil leaves help #researchers identify factors leading to enormous #herbivore diversity phys.org/news/2023-08-fossil-f

    #FossilLeaves reveal drivers of herbivore functional diversity during the #Cenozoic pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300

    "the diversity of #herbivorous #insects evolved over the last 60 million years primarily through the shared use of food #plants. The results are based on the analysis of feeding traces left by #arthropods on more than 45,000 fossil leaves."

  8. A tiny "gnat ogre" (a kind of robber fly) perches on the tip of a twig while waiting for dinner (a gnat, or similar-sized insect) to fly by. While he waits, an even tinier red mite snacks on HIM.