Any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern; found in soil rich in organic debris or on the surface of snow or water.
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1 Silverfish vies with springtail in trying to be most primitive insect.
2 For a tiny arthropod called a globular springtail , life is about being generally spherical and generally pissed-looking.
3 Alas for the springtail , they can't control where they go -but it's still effective for predator avoidance.
4 When a boy globular springtail and a girl globular springtail love each other very much they kiss for a long time.
5 But, before we get to that, there are lots of kinds of springtails .
1 Separate and combined treatments with earthworms and collembolans were set up.
2 Small herbs were at a maximum in the combined treatment with earthworms and collembolans .
3 Root biomass decreased in the presence of collembolans and even more in the presence of earthworms.
4 Presumably, altered food quality of fungi caused compensatory responses by the collembolans , thereby diminishing the fungal signal.
5 Generally, the PLFA profile of the collembolans changed only slightly due to variations in diet quality or starvation.
6 Results showed that Mancozeb in Oxisol reduced the survival and reproduction of collembolans (LC 50 54.43 and EC 50 2.72 mg a.i.
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