AJC Springtails

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...

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