OK, so springtails are not technically insects, they are "non-insect hexapods". They have six legs but taxonomists have placed them outside of class Insecta for reasons having to do with their mouth-parts being inside their head. They are in a subclass called Collembola.
I found these little guys floating on the surface tension of a puddle while on a walk in the woods. They are only about a millimeter in length.
Dicyrtomina sp.
Those are SO CUTE!
ReplyDeleteI think so, too! :)
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