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2024-11-04 08:42:30

Frank Ashwood on Nostr: This Calvatomina superba is one of New Zealand's many crazily-coloured globular ...

This Calvatomina superba is one of New Zealand's many crazily-coloured globular springtails, most of which are still undescribed to science.

Springtails like this are capable of instantaneously leaping to heights of up to 100 times their body length - equivalent to a human jumping over the Eiffel tower!

#Macrophotgraphy #SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #Entomology #Collembola

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