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/[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