AJC Springtails

Earlier this week I came across a springtail that gave me pause for thought. Allacma fusca was the very first springtail ever described sci...

McCulloch, J.I. (2025) Entomobrya petri sp. nov.: A new species of springtail found in the British Isles. Soil Organisms 97 (2). https://doi...

Thanks to the hard work of James McCulloch & Duerden Cormack more than 6,000 springtail records have been imported from iRecord and are ...

Five years ago I had a crisis of confidence when Peter Shaw published his paper on DNA analysis of  Lepidocyrtus - see: Big trouble in Lepi...

2024 was a very sad year when we lost some major figures in the springtail community.  Frans Janssens was an enormous help to me when I star...

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...