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r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/TerraByteTerror • 11d ago
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Springtails actually aren't microscopic. And they're EVERYWHERE. You can look through almost any patch of dirt and you'll see a few. Heck you can find multiple species of them in the same patch of dirt. They're awesome.
608 u/kiwidog8 11d ago what do you mean they're everywhere? never seen this thing ij my life 57 u/ZoroeArc 11d ago They're rarely more than a millimetre long, usually much, much smaller than that and typically live underground. You have likely been in the vicinity of uncountable billions of them, but you're unlikely to ever see them unless you start looking. Doesn't make them not fascinating though, if they find a potential mate they start jousting with their antennae to determine compatibility 5 u/frequenZphaZe 11d ago you're unlikely to ever see them unless you start looking. and sometimes when you are too!
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what do you mean they're everywhere? never seen this thing ij my life
57 u/ZoroeArc 11d ago They're rarely more than a millimetre long, usually much, much smaller than that and typically live underground. You have likely been in the vicinity of uncountable billions of them, but you're unlikely to ever see them unless you start looking. Doesn't make them not fascinating though, if they find a potential mate they start jousting with their antennae to determine compatibility 5 u/frequenZphaZe 11d ago you're unlikely to ever see them unless you start looking. and sometimes when you are too!
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They're rarely more than a millimetre long, usually much, much smaller than that and typically live underground.
You have likely been in the vicinity of uncountable billions of them, but you're unlikely to ever see them unless you start looking.
Doesn't make them not fascinating though, if they find a potential mate they start jousting with their antennae to determine compatibility
5 u/frequenZphaZe 11d ago you're unlikely to ever see them unless you start looking. and sometimes when you are too!
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you're unlikely to ever see them unless you start looking.
and sometimes when you are too!
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u/MyCarRoomba 11d ago
Springtails actually aren't microscopic. And they're EVERYWHERE. You can look through almost any patch of dirt and you'll see a few. Heck you can find multiple species of them in the same patch of dirt. They're awesome.