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Alex Akselrod
@aakselrod@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

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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Neat purple creature moving through moss, near some more transparent creatures.
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Strfnurfn
@earthtoneone@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@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.

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Bjørnar (he/him)
@btuftin@social.coop replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@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

Poduromorpha - Wikipedia

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Travis F W
@travisfw@fosstodon.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@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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