LordV wrote:
oddly the one place I don\'t seem to find springtails is around my ponds - I thought they be swarming there. Brian V.
I think it has to be a very long-established body of water. After all, an insect which doesn\'t fly, and would jump off any transient vertebrate doesn\'t travel too well.
Having said that, somewhere I have some preserved specimens of an exotic species which I found thriving on the surface of my tropical aquarium decades ago.
There are terrestrial species of Sminthurides, one of which was found in UK cereal fields.
LordV wrote:
oddly the one place I don\'t seem to find springtails is around my ponds - I thought they be swarming there. Brian V.
I think it has to be a very long-established body of water. After all, an insect which doesn\'t fly, and would jump off any transient vertebrate doesn\'t travel too well.
Having said that, somewhere I have some preserved specimens of an exotic species which I found thriving on the surface of my tropical aquarium decades ago.
There are terrestrial species of Sminthurides, one of which was found in UK cereal fields.
Nov 19, 2008 at 02:52 AM
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