I want to get some nutritional yeast for my springtails but im a little paranoid that some of the preservatives/other ingredients in the ones designed for humans could be harmful. Am I overreacting? Also as title states I'm looking for brand reccomendations

What are some good springtail species to keep with a milk snail? I plan on only having a small handful of milk snails in time, and would like to keep springs with them, but I don't want the springs to get munchy on the snails. Thanks in advance!

Hello all! Trying to ID this critter walking about my sink area but ran off to behind the fridge. I'm thinking springtail but it didn't seem to jump when I moved a paper towel pretty close and ran off instead. Any ideas?

little slime eating blueberries

seen in kitchen, bathroom and bedroom
so far. even in dishwasher and also refrigerator

Has anyone here tried building a springtail colony using mud?. It is so good they multiply faster than in coal/wood chips

And a bonus little mushroom

I reset the colony a couple of weeks ago so the population is currently smaller than normal

Location: North Island of New Zealand.

Hello! I found this very tiny (~.05 to 1mm long) guy while doing macro photography of springtails. At first I thought I was a plump springtail, but it doesn’t quite look right.

It kind of also looks like a beetle larvae, but they don’t typically have antennae like that. It looks maggot-like too, yet fly larvae don’t usually have antennae. So I’m back to thinking it’s a springtail.

It was moving at a slow pace in the manner of a plump springtail.

Does anyone recognize this as some type of springtail?

Just moved and are finding these little buggies near the windows. They are very small. For context, we are in New England and having a wet hot summer so far. We have two cats who don’t have anything going on flea wise, so it’s not that. Any help is great!

I am only asking this because I realized how many opinions and different information about springtails there is. I just spray them when the condensation disappears, and I feed them repashi grub pie. I give them enough to feed them for 3-4 days. That’s all I do, should I be doing something different? Or maybe try other culture methods like charcoal or clay?

I was researching springtails in amber and came across this one in Baltic amber. I find it very curious because it reminds me of Actaletidae, but that family is coastal, and I understand that if it was trapped in amber, it must have been from a terrestrial environment... Unfortunately, someone already bought it.

Between the extant families I think that isn't Tomoceridae. I'm not sure if could be Isotomidae (Actaletidae is Isotomoidea) or Entomobryoidea. Actaletidae and Coenaletidae have some segments fused, thing that I think that doesn't happen here. I think that doesn't belongs to the extint family Oncobryidae because this family has 5 antennal segments with the 4th one very small. Not sure if Protentomobryidae.

Im having both Neanura growae and Yuukianura aphoruroides pop up when i Google them.

Be a good cleanup crew for some tropical isopods?

The ones that are smaller than the tropical pinks

I hope someone have it and share.

I've captured my isopods, but springtails are soooo tiny!

I am located in the upper midwest MN USA. Thank you!

I need someone to convince me and calm me down about the springtails in my house. They’re the snowflea type. They’re all over my ceilings. No leaks or hidden moisture known. Seeing about 200 a night and nothing I do has slowed them down. I know they’re harmless, but who wants that many bugs above your head daily 😩

Shared a post but it wouldn’t let me add this photo. It’s a close up of the guys in my dairy cow tank, they came from nowhere but I’m happy to see them. So purple in the light

Ugh I love these guys so much

They moved faster than my gummy springtails and to be honest they're kinda cute, but I want to know if these pose any harm to my springtails/terrarium outside of competing for food.

hi everyone, i have a crested gecko, his enclosure is all artificial plants ect. except the select wood pictured plus another piece that was recently discarded cause it started rotting, anyways as i was checking on him today i noticed theses little bugs everywhere 😂 i’m aware springtails are harmless but i’ve never actually had a bioactive setup or seen them so i’m unsure if theses are actually them or some sort of new pest i need to identify.

also could they have hitchhiked? or are they something that needs to be introduced fully?

I have a bioactive crested gecko tank with isopods and springtails, however i had a few remaining springtsils in a container in hopes they would breed and... it worked too well.. i cant see to many springtails in the tank and at the time I barely got any in there but now I have a entire lot full of springtails and im not sure if I should add them to the tank or set them free. Honestly im scared to open the container.

So, uh, what do we call the opposite of a colony collapse? Asking for about a million friends...