Yesterday we had earthworm cocoons, today I bring you springtail spermatophores!
Springtails, like many other soil invertebrates, reproduce by a male leaving these structures (a blob of sperm-rich fluid on a stalk), which the female will sniff out, collect and use to fertilise her eggs. Very romantic!
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