These small studs, arranged in grids and honeycombs, look completely unnatural. If the image was life-sized, you might think that they’re part of a bizarre children’s toy. If they had been ...

Springtails (Collembola) are wingless arthropods adapted to cutaneous respiration in temporarily rain-flooded and microbially contaminated habitats by a non-wetting and antiadhesive skin surface that ...

In all these many years, I have never written a column on springtails, and yet I am pretty sure you have them all over your yard. In fact, you have more of them than any other arthropod. You probably ...

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