In addition to spider mites, mealybugs, or thrips, springtails also threaten plants. What do springtails look like? Springtails are insects most commonly found in pots and gardens. They are ...

Their most important job: Recycling plant matter Safe or at risk: Safe Springtails are tiny little critters with a big job to do. In the human world, when a person or a pet dies, their remains are ...

In the summer of 2023, what seemed like tiny aliens turned up at the Wupatki National Monument. A visitor told park staff ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists have made a walking, jumping robot that pushes ...

Alexis had to work fast to take this photograph, as springtails can jump many times their body length in a split second. He used a technique called focus stacking, combining 36 images, each with a ...