Tag: Winter

7/150: In the dead of Winter snow fleas emerge

Jan 20, 2017

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by

Crystal Sobel

in #Biodiversity150

animalia: Arthropoda: Collembola: Poduromorpha: Hypogastruridae: Hypogastrura: Hypogastrura tooliki (Fjellberg, 1985) Hypogastrura tooliki (Toolik Snow Flea) is part of a group of animals known as snow fleas. These tiny creatures are not fleas at all, they are Collembola or springtails.