#springtails — Public Fediverse posts
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The tiny little yellow globular springtails are out and dancing on the leaves! They lock antennae and twirl around and around. The smaller ones are the males and you will sometimes see multiple males trying to dance with a female. I have been trying to get a video that isn't too blurry/shaky.
Springtails are not insects; like insects they are six-legged arthropods, but they are on a separate branch of the arthropod "family tree". I always refer people to Andy Murray's Collembola page for the great up-close photos and overviews of the major groups: https://www.chaosofdelight.org/collembola-springtails
#bugstodon #arthropods #springtails #Collembola #Symphypleona
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The tiny little yellow globular springtails are out and dancing on the leaves! They lock antennae and twirl around and around. The smaller ones are the males and you will sometimes see multiple males trying to dance with a female. I have been trying to get a video that isn't too blurry/shaky.
Springtails are not insects; like insects they are six-legged arthropods, but they are on a separate branch of the arthropod "family tree". I always refer people to Andy Murray's Collembola page for the great up-close photos and overviews of the major groups: https://www.chaosofdelight.org/collembola-springtails
#bugstodon #arthropods #springtails #Collembola #Symphypleona
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The tiny little yellow globular springtails are out and dancing on the leaves! They lock antennae and twirl around and around. The smaller ones are the males and you will sometimes see multiple males trying to dance with a female. I have been trying to get a video that isn't too blurry/shaky.
Springtails are not insects; like insects they are six-legged arthropods, but they are on a separate branch of the arthropod "family tree". I always refer people to Andy Murray's Collembola page for the great up-close photos and overviews of the major groups: https://www.chaosofdelight.org/collembola-springtails
#bugstodon #arthropods #springtails #Collembola #Symphypleona
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The tiny little yellow globular springtails are out and dancing on the leaves! They lock antennae and twirl around and around. The smaller ones are the males and you will sometimes see multiple males trying to dance with a female. I have been trying to get a video that isn't too blurry/shaky.
Springtails are not insects; like insects they are six-legged arthropods, but they are on a separate branch of the arthropod "family tree". I always refer people to Andy Murray's Collembola page for the great up-close photos and overviews of the major groups: https://www.chaosofdelight.org/collembola-springtails
#bugstodon #arthropods #springtails #Collembola #Symphypleona
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Vergissmeinnicht-Blüten mit einem gelben Kugelspringer. Der Hintergrund liegt noch im Schatten.
Forget-me-not blossom with a yellow globular springtail insect. The background is still in shadow.
#schwarzweiss
#schwarzweiß
#monochrome
#monochrom
#photography
#blackandwhite
#blackandwhitephotography
#forgetmenot
#blossoms
#insects
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Vergissmeinnicht-Blüten mit einem gelben Kugelspringer. Der Hintergrund liegt noch im Schatten.
Forget-me-not blossom with a yellow globular springtail insect. The background is still in shadow.
#schwarzweiss
#schwarzweiß
#monochrome
#monochrom
#photography
#blackandwhite
#blackandwhitephotography
#forgetmenot
#blossoms
#insects
#springtails -
Vergissmeinnicht-Blüten mit einem gelben Kugelspringer. Der Hintergrund liegt noch im Schatten.
Forget-me-not blossom with a yellow globular springtail insect. The background is still in shadow.
#schwarzweiss
#schwarzweiß
#monochrome
#monochrom
#photography
#blackandwhite
#blackandwhitephotography
#forgetmenot
#blossoms
#insects
#springtails -
Vergissmeinnicht-Blüten mit einem gelben Kugelspringer. Der Hintergrund liegt noch im Schatten.
Forget-me-not blossom with a yellow globular springtail insect. The background is still in shadow.
#schwarzweiss
#schwarzweiß
#monochrome
#monochrom
#photography
#blackandwhite
#blackandwhitephotography
#forgetmenot
#blossoms
#insects
#springtails -
Vergissmeinnicht-Blüten mit einem gelben Kugelspringer. Der Hintergrund liegt noch im Schatten.
Forget-me-not blossom with a yellow globular springtail insect. The background is still in shadow.
#schwarzweiss
#schwarzweiß
#monochrome
#monochrom
#photography
#blackandwhite
#blackandwhitephotography
#forgetmenot
#blossoms
#insects
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So Smol!
This is a globular springtail, cave adapted, in Pygmarrhopalites but don't ask for species because I have no clue! But it *is* a lot of fun to say! I'll try to spell it out for you..."pig-mawf-fah-light-ees" uhm that's about the best I got, Give it a whirl! No accuracy promises implied :P#springtail #springtails #Soil #ecology #invertebrates #Collembola
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So Smol!
This is a globular springtail, cave adapted, in Pygmarrhopalites but don't ask for species because I have no clue! But it *is* a lot of fun to say! I'll try to spell it out for you..."pig-mawf-fah-light-ees" uhm that's about the best I got, Give it a whirl! No accuracy promises implied :P#springtail #springtails #Soil #ecology #invertebrates #Collembola
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So Smol!
This is a globular springtail, cave adapted, in Pygmarrhopalites but don't ask for species because I have no clue! But it *is* a lot of fun to say! I'll try to spell it out for you..."pig-mawf-fah-light-ees" uhm that's about the best I got, Give it a whirl! No accuracy promises implied :P#springtail #springtails #Soil #ecology #invertebrates #Collembola
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So Smol!
This is a globular springtail, cave adapted, in Pygmarrhopalites but don't ask for species because I have no clue! But it *is* a lot of fun to say! I'll try to spell it out for you..."pig-mawf-fah-light-ees" uhm that's about the best I got, Give it a whirl! No accuracy promises implied :P#springtail #springtails #Soil #ecology #invertebrates #Collembola
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Springtail on a snail. Springsnail
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Springtail on a snail. Springsnail
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Springtail on a snail. Springsnail
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Springtail on a snail. Springsnail
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Moss Terrarium – Initial Build
I built a moss terrarium to survive a New Jersey winter — but between FedEx delays, frozen fingers, and springtail paste, it finished just as spring arrived. -
Moss Terrarium – Initial Build
I built a moss terrarium to survive a New Jersey winter — but between FedEx delays, frozen fingers, and springtail paste, it finished just as spring arrived. -
Moss Terrarium – Initial Build
I built a moss terrarium to survive a New Jersey winter — but between FedEx delays, frozen fingers, and springtail paste, it finished just as spring arrived. -
Adding to my Snowflea aka Springtail photos from yesterday: if you look closely you can see a few of them in mid air above the snow ridge. They use a spring-loaded lever on their bodies to catapult them into the air to a height of about 100 times their body length (1mm).
Also, they have an antifreeze protein in their body, thus can be active in the snow.
Fascinating tiny creatures. -
Adding to my Snowflea aka Springtail photos from yesterday: if you look closely you can see a few of them in mid air above the snow ridge. They use a spring-loaded lever on their bodies to catapult them into the air to a height of about 100 times their body length (1mm).
Also, they have an antifreeze protein in their body, thus can be active in the snow.
Fascinating tiny creatures. -
Adding to my Snowflea aka Springtail photos from yesterday: if you look closely you can see a few of them in mid air above the snow ridge. They use a spring-loaded lever on their bodies to catapult them into the air to a height of about 100 times their body length (1mm).
Also, they have an antifreeze protein in their body, thus can be active in the snow.
Fascinating tiny creatures. -
Adding to my Snowflea aka Springtail photos from yesterday: if you look closely you can see a few of them in mid air above the snow ridge. They use a spring-loaded lever on their bodies to catapult them into the air to a height of about 100 times their body length (1mm).
Also, they have an antifreeze protein in their body, thus can be active in the snow.
Fascinating tiny creatures. -
Adding to my Snowflea aka Springtail photos from yesterday: if you look closely you can see a few of them in mid air above the snow ridge. They use a spring-loaded lever on their bodies to catapult them into the air to a height of about 100 times their body length (1mm).
Also, they have an antifreeze protein in their body, thus can be active in the snow.
Fascinating tiny creatures. -
Slides from my talk last night to the Field #Naturalists Association of #Canberra:
"Lessons from #Malaise trapping in Aranda"
As with most of my talks, there are few notes, but the gallery of amazing #insects may mean something to some of you.
#entomology #taxonomy #DNAbarcoding #biodiversity #OnceAndFutureKing #Hymenoptera #Lepidoptera #Strepsiptera #Hemiptera #Collembola #Araneae #wasps #moths #springtails #spiders
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Slides from my talk last night to the Field #Naturalists Association of #Canberra:
"Lessons from #Malaise trapping in Aranda"
As with most of my talks, there are few notes, but the gallery of amazing #insects may mean something to some of you.
#entomology #taxonomy #DNAbarcoding #biodiversity #OnceAndFutureKing #Hymenoptera #Lepidoptera #Strepsiptera #Hemiptera #Collembola #Araneae #wasps #moths #springtails #spiders
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Slides from my talk last night to the Field #Naturalists Association of #Canberra:
"Lessons from #Malaise trapping in Aranda"
As with most of my talks, there are few notes, but the gallery of amazing #insects may mean something to some of you.
#entomology #taxonomy #DNAbarcoding #biodiversity #OnceAndFutureKing #Hymenoptera #Lepidoptera #Strepsiptera #Hemiptera #Collembola #Araneae #wasps #moths #springtails #spiders
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Slides from my talk last night to the Field #Naturalists Association of #Canberra:
"Lessons from #Malaise trapping in Aranda"
As with most of my talks, there are few notes, but the gallery of amazing #insects may mean something to some of you.
#entomology #taxonomy #DNAbarcoding #biodiversity #OnceAndFutureKing #Hymenoptera #Lepidoptera #Strepsiptera #Hemiptera #Collembola #Araneae #wasps #moths #springtails #spiders
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Slides from my talk last night to the Field #Naturalists Association of #Canberra:
"Lessons from #Malaise trapping in Aranda"
As with most of my talks, there are few notes, but the gallery of amazing #insects may mean something to some of you.
#entomology #taxonomy #DNAbarcoding #biodiversity #OnceAndFutureKing #Hymenoptera #Lepidoptera #Strepsiptera #Hemiptera #Collembola #Araneae #wasps #moths #springtails #spiders
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went to the park and flipped a log which was in icy ankle-deep slush but still yielded the usuals.
#bugstodon #insects #springtails #beetles #mites #Mitestodon #Acari #Parasitiformes #Mesostigmata #Coleoptera #Staphylinidae #Collembola #Entomobryomorpha #Hymenoptera
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went to the park and flipped a log which was in icy ankle-deep slush but still yielded the usuals.
#bugstodon #insects #springtails #beetles #mites #Mitestodon #Acari #Parasitiformes #Mesostigmata #Coleoptera #Staphylinidae #Collembola #Entomobryomorpha #Hymenoptera
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went to the park and flipped a log which was in icy ankle-deep slush but still yielded the usuals.
#bugstodon #insects #springtails #beetles #mites #Mitestodon #Acari #Parasitiformes #Mesostigmata #Coleoptera #Staphylinidae #Collembola #Entomobryomorpha #Hymenoptera
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went to the park and flipped a log which was in icy ankle-deep slush but still yielded the usuals.
#bugstodon #insects #springtails #beetles #mites #Mitestodon #Acari #Parasitiformes #Mesostigmata #Coleoptera #Staphylinidae #Collembola #Entomobryomorpha #Hymenoptera
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went to the park and flipped a log which was in icy ankle-deep slush but still yielded the usuals.
#bugstodon #insects #springtails #beetles #mites #Mitestodon #Acari #Parasitiformes #Mesostigmata #Coleoptera #Staphylinidae #Collembola #Entomobryomorpha #Hymenoptera
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White and yellow witches butter fungus. With a globular springtail. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/back-to-mushrooms-again.html #VancouverIsland #Mushrooms #Fungi #Invertebrates #Springtails #NaturePhotography
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White and yellow witches butter fungus. With a globular springtail. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/back-to-mushrooms-again.html #VancouverIsland #Mushrooms #Fungi #Invertebrates #Springtails #NaturePhotography
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White and yellow witches butter fungus. With a globular springtail. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/back-to-mushrooms-again.html #VancouverIsland #Mushrooms #Fungi #Invertebrates #Springtails #NaturePhotography
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White and yellow witches butter fungus. With a globular springtail. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/back-to-mushrooms-again.html #VancouverIsland #Mushrooms #Fungi #Invertebrates #Springtails #NaturePhotography
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White and yellow witches butter fungus. With a globular springtail. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/back-to-mushrooms-again.html #VancouverIsland #Mushrooms #Fungi #Invertebrates #Springtails #NaturePhotography
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flipped a rotting stick in the woods the other day, found tiny metallic springtails (likely _Lepidocyrtus_) feeding on the fungi.
#bugstodon #springtails #Collembola #Entomobryomorpha #Entomobryidae #fungi #mushtodon #sporespondence
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flipped a rotting stick in the woods the other day, found tiny metallic springtails (likely _Lepidocyrtus_) feeding on the fungi.
#bugstodon #springtails #Collembola #Entomobryomorpha #Entomobryidae #fungi #mushtodon #sporespondence
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flipped a rotting stick in the woods the other day, found tiny metallic springtails (likely _Lepidocyrtus_) feeding on the fungi.
#bugstodon #springtails #Collembola #Entomobryomorpha #Entomobryidae #fungi #mushtodon #sporespondence
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flipped a rotting stick in the woods the other day, found tiny metallic springtails (likely _Lepidocyrtus_) feeding on the fungi.
#bugstodon #springtails #Collembola #Entomobryomorpha #Entomobryidae #fungi #mushtodon #sporespondence
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flipped a rotting stick in the woods the other day, found tiny metallic springtails (likely _Lepidocyrtus_) feeding on the fungi.
#bugstodon #springtails #Collembola #Entomobryomorpha #Entomobryidae #fungi #mushtodon #sporespondence
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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