Last survivor of the great flood

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Last survivor of the great flood

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Coming across a brass hose nozzle partially imbedded in the soil recently, I tried to run water through it without success. A small dowel cleared the impaction, but to my surprise and dismay, resulted in a mass of highly active critters running around my work space. From a look at their representative, I believe they were springtails, but would welcome the thoughts of others.


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Re: Last survivor of the great flood

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The eye excludes springtails

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This does not look to me like a springtail (Collembola). The antennae look like they have too many segments, and the eye has too many facets, in too regular of an arrangement. (From https://projects.ncsu.edu/cals/course/e ... mbola.html , "Antennae 4- to 6-segmented" and "Compound eyes absent or reduced to a cluster of not more than 8 ommatidia".)

To me this looks more like an ant.

Do you have some whole-body shots?

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Re: Last survivor of the great flood

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Rik, not a very good one, but here's what I've got. Same specimen.

Leonard

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Definitely not an ant.

This is now reminding me of a very young earwig, something like https://bugguide.net/node/view/622180 .

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Re: Last survivor of the great flood

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I try to have my say ... it looks like a young earwig...Dermaptera are hemimetabolous insects and the young seem like little adults...

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My thanks to all three of you. My pre-posting evaluation was insufficient, and I am now quite convinced that this is an earwig, likely a young one.

I appreciate your help and comments!

Leonard

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Definitely an earwig. Nice shot by the way.

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Nice shooting!
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