Stats

Lifespan

Up to 1 yr

Size

Tiny

Diet

Decomposer

Activity

Cathemeral

Social

Colony

Biome

Temperate forest

Range

Worldwide

Movement

Hopping

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Hopping

Status

Common

About

Springtails are tiny six-legged arthropods found in almost every soil and leaf-litter habitat on Earth, with some soils hosting over 100,000 per square metre. Most can launch themselves up to 100 times their own body length using a forked tail-like appendage called a furcula — a split-second escape from predators.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   juvenile

   A clearly-young animal, past the newborn phase but well short of full adult size.
2. 2.
   adult

   Fully grown.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Entognatha