If springtails are invading your home, that is a sign there is moisture luring them in. Springtails are a fan of humidity and organic matter. They need moisture to survive and feast on fungi, algae, ...

In addition to spider mites, mealybugs, or thrips, springtails also threaten plants. What do springtails look like?

Using high-speed photography, researchers led by Víctor Ortega-Jiménez at the Georgia Institute of Technology have solved the mystery of how springtails jump away from danger and successfully ...

They may not sound as majestic as herds of elephants or flocks of migrating birds, but as these photos attest, there’s ...

In Japan, they’re known as 'gejigeji' and are even sometimes kept as pets. Not officially insects, springtails are more like insect cousins. They’re subterranean and like to live in the dirt ...

Ernest Bernard, a nematologist from the University of Tennessee who studies small, insect-like arthropods called springtails, says it’s because micro-organisms are probably important in ways we don’t ...

Relax by watching some bioturbation videos and make sure you don't leave your soil naked says author, Donna Mullen ...

Insecticides caused the most harm to nontarget invertebrates, with studies showing around 80% of tested endpoints negatively affected in ground beetles, ground nesting solitary bees, parasitic wasps, ...

A soil test is a great way to get a baseline understanding of some of the components of soil health, as is the soil survey ...

This includes unique animals (think Adélie penguins, Weddell seals and snow petrels), mosses and lichens that harbour tiny invertebrates (such as mites, water-bears and springtails), and an array ...