Springtail fact file

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in leaf litter, on wood

leaf litter, wood, fungi

6

insect

brown

Tail is held under body normally. It can be released, so that the springtail shoots itself through the air, to escape predators (animals that want to eat it).

2 antennae on head - for feeling and smelling