How To Use Springtail In A Sentence
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This second gene is only found in holometabolous insects, Drosophila, and silkworms but not in the more primitive hemimetabolous insects, like grasshoppers or springtails.
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Springtails (Collembola) of Eurasian polar deserts.
Arctic environments north of the treeline
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Various crane flies, spiders, springtails and other species have life cycles of 3 to 5 years.
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The earliest described insects are flightless; they occur in Scottish Devonian rocks, and are similar to modern springtails.
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A glacier species of particular note is the glacier flea Isotoma saltans, a species of springtail.
Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland
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Scavenging crabs clean the bones, as do the smaller invertebrates such as the tiny springtails that live in the sand.
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Moreover, there is experimental evidence that population densities of numerically dominant tundra Collembola (springtail) species such as '' Folsomia quadrioculata '' and '' Hypogastrura tullbergi '' can be halved following an episode of freezing rain on Spitzbergen [172].
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
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- Snow fleas are not really fleas, but belong to a group of primitive organisms called springtails (Collembola).
Rich Wolf: Boulder's Heart-Warming Fleas
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The No. 1 offender on his top 10 list is an animal most people have never heard of but obviously find commonly: a tiny arthropod called a springtail.
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Using high-speed digital cameras up to frame rates of 5,000 frames per second, the team was able to film, in extreme detail, tiny springtails jumping, showing exactly how different species jump and right themselves when they land.
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The GM portions of the beet fields also had fewer butterflies, but more springtails, which are small arthropods that feed on dead plants.
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The matter focuses on an order of minuscule hexapods called collembolans, or springtails, which includes thousands of species.
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- Snow fleas, like all springtails, have an unusual appendage (a furcula) that folds under the abdomen and can be used to suddenly propel the insects several inches.
Rich Wolf: Boulder's Heart-Warming Fleas
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The matter focuses on an order of minuscule hexapods called collembolans, or springtails, which includes thousands of species.
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I've never seen a springtail that looked quite like that.
Springtail before it sprung away
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While conducting ecological inventories of 30 caves on the Colorado Plateau of northern Arizona, research by Wynne and Voyles has resulted in the discovery of at least 10 new species, including a new species of spider, a new genus of cave cricket (Family Rhaphidophoridae), possibly two new cricket species, a new barklouse (Psocoptera) species, a new beetle species, and possibly two new springtail species (Collembola).
Archive 2007-03-01
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She felt bugs crawling under her skin, and one day, she said, she pulled a worm out of her eyeball and coughed up a springtail fly.
Whatever Happened To ... the mysterious disease known as Morgellons
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I saw this little springtail—barely a millimeter long—sitting on a mushroom on a rotting trunk in the woods last weekend.
Springtail before it sprung away
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He said the island was home to 16 springtail species, five of which were invaders thought to have been introduced following the establishment of the South African scientific station on the island in
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