Took some video under a microscope of some #moss in my backyard with the child. Please help, #mosstodon, what is this cool purple crearure?
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Took some video under a microscope of some #moss in my backyard with the child. Please help, #mosstodon, what is this cool purple crearure?
@aakselrod That is SO COOL! He's so purple! And that happy little shimmy! Plus my brain keeps insisting the beige one in the background is a bunny.
@aakselrod I'm not an entomologist, but my first guess would be a springtail. There are a large variety of them, and many are very tiny and shaped like what you've got there. I'd further guess they're the order Poduromorpha, though that's still not narrowing it down much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poduromorpha
@aakselrod looks to me (IANA entomologist) like an insect larva of some kind. it looks soft like a caterpillar (moth/butterfly larva) and it has six legs.
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