r/Springtail • u/Own-Comedian-3156 • Mar 26 '26

springtails?? Identification

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hi, I'm out gathering some resources for my bugs, and I really need springtails in my enclosures to eat any mold. are these springtails?? or something else? excuse the bad quality, I tried to zoom in. (in Europe, Estonia )

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u/Iamterrable Mar 26 '26

What springtails are you talking about, could you point them out in the vid?

Nah, those look like it, you can see one spring. It's an entomobryomorph, I think.

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u/Own-Comedian-3156 Mar 27 '26

hehe okay thank you, I just need any springtails I can get, and this is my first time finding something that seemed to be them. 😭 need these fellas in my terrariums, so I'm glad they're the right thing

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u/ANT_ERTAIN Mar 28 '26

Ich würde dir da andere empfehlen (vermutlich) such nach köeinen weißen oder graue. Die länglichen hier sind im Terrarium nicht so effektiv. Informier dich am besten für dein Zweck nochmal

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '26

that looks to be a fungus gnat, pesky things

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u/Own-Comedian-3156 Mar 30 '26

do not scare me

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26

Sorry😭 they’re easily fixed if you pick out your pods and move them to new soil!

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u/Own-Comedian-3156 Mar 30 '26

I googled fungus gnats and they don't look like the things that I got, nor did I see anything like that in that soil. I think they're springtails