AJC Springtails

For the past ten years the aquarium housing my ancient Axolotl has also been home to a colony of Sminthurides malmgreni . I have done nothin...

 

I've been playing with darkfield microscopy - poor man's phase contrast. Darkfield uses obliqe illumination as a cheap optical trick...

I have to admit that springtails have been on the back burner recently while I've been focusing mostly on spiders. The weather hasn...

For those who think they can tell Isotoma viridis from other Isotoma by the colour alone - two Isotoma viridis specimens from the same ...

I recently bought myself a G-vac - for the uninitiated, a cordless garden leaf vacuum adapted for use as a bug vac - and I took it for its...

Recently, I've been thinking a lot about occupancy models for invertebrates. Other taxa, notably birds and butterflies (through the BTO ...

Fossil amber reveals springtails longstanding dispersal by social insects. (2019) BMC Evol Biol 19, 213 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-01...