Springtail

"Springtail" in a Sentence (2 examples)

Among the wonders of the natural world that few people have ever noticed: a semiaquatic springtail in motion.

Springtails, or collembolans, are strictly not insects because of technicalities to do with the position of their mouthparts, but they are the closest cousins of insects.

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