Springtail

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We don't have any snow and it's been da--ed hot for January so I went out behind the house and gathered a handful of fallen leaves from the woodland. The leaves went in a white basin so I could sort through them, finding dozens of small roundworms and two of these springtails, possibly Tomocerus vulgaris, which are 1.5-2mm long -

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