It's a Long, Long, Road...

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 6:42 pm

for this little springtail it seems. The little guy looks so down in the dumps but we all have days like that. Nothing much to do today so I prowled around in the dirt and moss to come up with this.

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beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:28 pm

OK Ken...take a look at the picture again. Right near the springtails head is a black sphere...what is that???? (looks like it has a stalk also). A very nice micro-enviroment picture.

Cyclops · Post by **Cyclops** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:32 pm

beetleman wrote:OK Ken...take a look at the picture again. Right near the springtails head is a black sphere...what is that???? (looks like it has a stalk also). A very nice micro-enviroment picture.

Doug I do believe tats one of its compound eyes, or are we looking at different parts!
I aw a black springtail the other night, all on its own and covered in night dew.

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 5:06 pm

That black sphere is probably a wad of algae, the moss was full of it. I have taken a look at that stuff before under the Axiostar, it is some kind of filamentous algae but I have yet to find anything that references it. Myxo's can be that small too.

Thanks guys