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Whoville - Podura aquatica
Copyright © 2009 mudmusher

Whoville - Podura aquatica
Wolf Park, Battle Ground, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, USA
April 30, 2009
Lots of activity in "Whoville" today. Are the ones in the water mating or sheding or...?
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Contributed by mudmusher on 30 April, 2009 - 9:15pm

The white ones
on the water surface are in fact the empty shedded skins.
The bluish oval spots around some of the shedded skins are waste products of the decomposition of the skin (note that those skins appear to be disassembled). In fact it are local biofilms full of algae, bacillae, protozoa, fungi, etc
… Frans Janssens, 1 May, 2009 - 3:13am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Frans
I thought they looked like shed skins but they also appeared to be in pairs which made me wonder.
… mudmusher, 1 May, 2009 - 1:19pm login or register to post comments

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