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Springtails
Paul Iddon
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Just put the recycling waste food into the compost bin in the garden - and it's blowing a hoolie out there - and raining, and bloody cold as well. But I did spot some springtail activity on the lid of the compost bin.
A couple of the same one first that was walking around, a globular springtail - then I spotted a baby one, and then when I took the lid off the bin, there were a couple of dead springies - I focused on the more interesting of the two, the deadest looking one!
Paul.
A couple of the same one first that was walking around, a globular springtail - then I spotted a baby one, and then when I took the lid off the bin, there were a couple of dead springies - I focused on the more interesting of the two, the deadest looking one!
Paul.
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The first two are Dicyrtomina saudersi.
The third is a psocopteran, a Barkfly or Booklouse, nymph. See the wing buds. the eyes are compound, with dozens of facets whereas a springtail has, at most, eight ocelli on each side, close together but not touching.
The last is probably an entomobryid. I think it was not dead but recovering after a jump.
Harold
I realised it was probably a bark fly in #3 after I posted...
I kinda thought the 2 in image #4 both looked pretty deadish, lol..
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