Thousands of species of mites and springtails, living in soil all around the world, provide a crucial service by munching organic matter like fallen leaves and wood, transferring its planet ...

Taxonomically, springtails are called Collembola, a label given to them by John Lubbock, an English polymath of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The word comes from the Greek words for “glue ...

Join the Naturalists at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, July 30 at the Whistler Public Library for a presentation on springtails ...

Step right up to see tiny springtails spin through the air with the greatest of ease!

Many people overlook springtails—which makes sense, considering that most of the 9,000 known species are about the size of a grain of sand. What’s more, springtails don’t bite or sting humans.

Life Backflipping springtails are the fastest spinners known in nature High-speed camera recordings show that springtails spin at up to 368 rotations per second when they jump away from danger By ...

Two springtails jump off a platform in a lab in this high-speed camera footage. A. Smith By Jonathan Lambert August 29, 2024 at 9:00 am ...

Watch the world’s fastest backflipping bug The globular springtail rotates as much as 368 times per second. Andrew Paul Aug 30, 2024 1:29 PM EDT ...

The globular springtail's backflips captured frame by frame. This tiny bug can leap 60 times its body height, reaching a peak rotation speed of 368 rotations per second. Adrian Smith "When ...

The unique scent of rain may actually be a chemical signal used by bacteria to attract this tiny arthropod, called a springtail. Ryan Hodnett via Flickr under Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic ...

A University of Maine-led study has found that the aquatic springtails’ pattern of jumping, soaring and landing is a perfectly choreographed aerial ballet, contradicting biologists' previous ...