#Springtails

[apsciencebydan]

Did you know that Cheeto's have a free-living larval stage before they mature and begin communal life in bags?

[sarahmackattack]

In my 4-week class, Mating Rituals of the Animal Kingdom, we'll cover things you never even THOUGHT to ask about animal mating.

INCLUDING:

-Spitballs, given as romantic gifts

-Spider Sex Percussionists™

-Bee perfumers

-Lemur Stink Fights

-Springtail females bench pressing males, who then Raccacoonie them to the pile of sperm the males prepared, so she then sits on it (God bless springtails)

-& MORE

Sign up here

I need 6 more people to sign up or Atlas Obscura won't run the course and this course is SO SILLY and SO FUN and you'll learn so much weird shit I can't even tell you. And JUST in time for VALENTINES day.

This class has no homework, and you can watch it live or later!

[myxomycota]

springtails feeding on Stemonitopsis typhina by Jamie Rosencrans

[antiqueanimals]

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: vol. 2 - Insects. Written by Dr. Bernhard Grzimek. 1984. Illustration by H. Mizzard.

Internet Archive

1.) Lepisma sp.

2.) Machilis sp.

3.) Campodea sp.

4.) Japyx sp.

5.) A proturan.

6.) Hypogastrura sp.

7.) Sminthurus sp.

8.) Onychiurus sp.

9.) Orchesella sp.

[kayinnasaki]

oh my god he kicked him at light speed

[botherbug]

SON POLOLOS SON POLOLOS. springtails. source.

[snototter]

A giant springtail (Holacanthella sp.) in Aotearoa

by Tony Jewell

[crevicedwelling]

some hairy springtails munch on pellets. the cookie is bigger than you

(Entomobrya griseoolivata)

[vrgssmncht]

PRIDE FLAG INVERT!!! Thank you for all the people who requested the critters!! :DDD @maxwellshimbo @sandpaperoctopi @cheezwizzer

[logs-pods]

Please pause for a lil guy to cross your dash- he's in a hurry.

[antappreciationanonymous]

I'm done with this blog. I just can't take it.

You Fuckers will upvote anything that is an isopod or moth. You simpletons.

Just take it. I don't even know what these ones are, I just found them on my camera roll.

[apsciencebydan]

This creature could only fit eyes or one (1) neuron in that little head, and it chose the single neuron. 🥹 Neelid springtails are so, so damn smol. This is basically a sand grain with legs. So happy to find some local in Florida! 🤍

[rattyexplores]

Springtails feasting on a fungus.

24/07/23 - Poduromorpha sp.

[myxomycota]

springtail amongst slime molds

by Geertje Geertsma

[antiqueanimals]

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: vol. 2 - Insects. Written by Dr. Bernhard Grzimek. 1984.

Internet Archive

1.) Euglena viridis

2.) Difflugia pyriformis

3.) Arcella vulgaris

4.) Nothrus silvestris

5.) Neobisium simoni

6.) Campodea staphylinus

7.) Onychiurus sp.

8.) Orchesella cincta

[squishyfauna]

Springmails 😆 coming soon as a sticker, once I’ve also finished my millipede one!

Pill millipede version

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