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Turtle Bug - Sminthurus
Copyright © 2008 Noah Charney

Turtle Bug - Sminthurus
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
April 21, 2008
Size: ~3mm
On live box turtle, seemed to be causing damage to shell.

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Contributed by Noah Charney on 28 April, 2008 - 10:34pm
Last updated 1 May, 2008 - 9:42pm

Moved
Moved from Springtails and allies.
… Charley Eiseman, 1 May, 2008 - 9:42pm login or register to post comments

Sminthurus sp.
Family is Sminthuridae.
It is grazing on the microflora growing on the shell. It will not damage it, but clean it.

I would like to get your permission to use your Collembola pictures as illustrations at www.collembola.org
Credits and copyrights will be provided for each picture used.
Thanks in advance.
… Frans Janssens, 30 April, 2008 - 6:24am login or register to post comments

 
Frans, feel free to use these
Frans, feel free to use these images on your website. sorry for the delayed response.
… Noah Charney, 10 May, 2008 - 8:27am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
a lot for your kind permission, Noah!
… Frans Janssens, 11 May, 2008 - 1:58am login or register to post comments

it does look kinda like a globular springtail
thats interesting i wonder if its eating the shell or something growing on it?
… Mike "troll" Dame, 29 April, 2008 - 12:32am login or register to post comments

Looks like a globular springtail
of some sort. Hopefully Frans Janssens can speak to what it was doing on the turtle shell...
...and here's one on a snail shell, for whatever it's worth:
… Charley Eiseman, 28 April, 2008 - 11:17pm login or register to post comments

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