A tiny creature scurried on its six legs through a dry grassland in Hungary. Suddenly, a monstrous machine appeared above him — and he was sucked into the depths of a researcher’s vacuum.
The Collembola, or springtails, are small (0.25 to 6 millimetres long) and currently recognised as a sub-class within Hexapoda, containing over 6,000 described species. Springtails are aptly named ...