Springtails, or Collembola, are incredibly beautiful, colourful and usually very tiny six legged soil mesofauna with an ability to jump.
An incredible world exists beneath our feet.
A stunning photographic guide to the amazing and bizarre soil animals that make up the soil mesofauna. Collembola (springtails), Protura (coneheads), Pauropoda, Forcipomyiinae (biting midges)
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Andy Murray (@mesofauna) / X
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Superb soil mesofauna photos by Andy Murray