#springtail

[onenicebugperday]

Ornate globular springtail, Dicyrtomina ornata, Dicyrtomidae

Found throughout Europe, on the eastern coast of the United States, and in the Pacific Northwest

Photos 1-3 by alexis_orion, 4 by cordycept, 5-6 by geum, and 7 (for scale) by brebis107

[crevicedwelling]

huh? Whats that?

computer enhanxce::

its this. and according to my readings its going about its merry way

faascinating

[snototter]

A globular springtail (Sminthurides sp.) in Little River Canyon National Preserve, Alabama, USA

by Alan Cressler

[morbidsmenagerie]

Getting a thermal sticker printer so I'm making some stickers! Feel free to use though credit is appreciated, all photos are my own.

[bugthingsdaily]

if we're showing off bug models! heres some from when i visited my fiancee in vienna, the natural history museum had (has?) a temp exhibit about creatures that live in the soil and all the environmental stuff around it, and there were some very good models too (plus some bonus slug sex that was in their normal bugs section)

now THAT is awesome. i love large scale insect models. so so cool, these are some really good ones

[linseedling]

Critters NOT drawn to scale (though I wish tardigrades were mole-sized so I could hold them in my hands like a hamster)

[hawkpartys]

[mevil]

the muppy

[leedlebeetles]

Globular Springtail!! Springtails are underrated bugs. Colored with twistable crayons!

Preorder keychains here!

[textless]

[samimarkart]

my last drop of the year is here! here’s what’s available:

𖦹 4 new shrimp mini acrylic charms

𖦹 spotted lanternfly and octopus enrichment shaker charms

𖦹 isopod phone charm restock including one new panda king isopod (and a springtail!)

𖦹 raccoon and bowerbird sticker restocks

this year has been a huge success thanks to all of you! when i was in middle a school, I looked up to SOOOO many different merch designer/convention artists but didn’t know how I could make that work. this spring i started designing stickers on a whim (thanks, brood x cicadas) and now I’m here! and I’m so thankful. i love you bug people and fish people.

𓆝 𓆟 𓆞 𓆝 𓆟

[onenicebugperday]

Giant springtail, Tetrodontophora bielanensis, Onychiuridae

Found primarily in central Europe

Photos 1-3 by sympiotr and 4 (for scale) by antsczech

[crevicedwelling]

variety pack

[snototter]

Springtails (Bilobella braunerae & Neanura sp.) feasting on algae in the Eifel mountain range, Germany

by Olaf Craasmann

[alphynix]

Rhyniella praecursor was an early springtail that lived during the early Devonian, about 410-400 million years ago, in what is now Scotland. Discovered in the exceptionally well-preserved Rhynie chert fossil site, it's one of the earliest known hexapods.

It was around 2mm long (~0.08") and closely resembled some of its modern relatives – with distinctive anatomical features like a collophore and a furca – showing that springtails were already well-established in such an early terrestrial ecosystem.

It probably had a similar sort of ecological role to modern springtails, too, being involved in the breaking down of organic matter and the formation of soils.

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References:

Dunlop, Jason A., and Russell J. Garwood. "Terrestrial invertebrates in the Rhynie chert ecosystem." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 373.1739 (2018): 20160493. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0493

"Collembolans." University of Aberdeen School of Geosciences, https://www.abdn.ac.uk/geosciences/departments/geology/research/the-rhynie-chert/the-learning-resource-site/fossil-fauna/collembolans/

Whalley, Paul, and Edmund A. Jarzembowski. "A new assessment of Rhyniella, the earliest known insect, from the Devonian of Rhynie, Scotland." Nature 291.5813 (1981): 317-317. https://doi.org/10.1038/291317a0

Wikipedia contributors. “Rhyniella” Wikipedia, 03 Dec. 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyniella

[herpsandbirds]

Springtail (Deutonura monticola), family Neanuridae, order Poduromorpha, France

These creatures are Springtails (subclass Collembola).

These animals were once considered to be primitive insects, but are now understood to be in a closely related groups of hexapods.

photographs by Philippe Garcelon