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dark-girdled yellow head - Willowsia buski
Copyright © 2007 Jim McClarin

dark-girdled yellow head - Willowsia buski
Nashua, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA
January 7, 2007
Size: about 0.95 mm
Collected from beneath loose bark of long-dead aspen trunk section that was suspended upsidedown in a tangle of bittersweet vines. I suspect this is just a younger, lighter-colored member of this species:

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 16 January, 2007 - 8:32pm
Last updated 17 January, 2007 - 5:06pm

Moved
Moved from Elongate-bodied Springtails.
… Jim McClarin, 17 January, 2007 - 5:06pm login or register to post comments

Willowsia buski
Indeed a juvenile.
… Frans Janssens, 17 January, 2007 - 11:30am login or register to post comments

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