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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Springtails and allies (Collembola) » Elongate-bodied Springtails (Entomobryomorpha) » Entomobryoidea » Slender Springtails (Entomobryidae) » Entomobryinae » Entomobrya » Entomobrya griseoolivata
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Springtail - Entomobrya griseoolivata
Copyright © 2008 Domingo Zungri

Springtail - Entomobrya griseoolivata
Roseville, Placer County, California, USA
April 11, 2008
Size: 2mm
I'm trying to culture these springtails that are living in my bathroom. I'm also trying to see if the "pupil-cam" that I just bought for the school I teach at actually works. So far, so good.

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Bathroom springtail - Entomobrya griseoolivata Springtail - Entomobrya griseoolivata
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Contributed by Domingo Zungri on 11 April, 2008 - 9:14pm
Last updated 7 May, 2008 - 8:06am

Moved
Moved from Entomobryidae.
… Domingo Zungri, 7 May, 2008 - 8:06am login or register to post comments

Hi Domingo
Do you have any other pictures of your cultured springtails?
Is this culture of the same specimens that I have IDed before as Entomobrya griseoolivata?
If yes, could you link the images, pls?
… Frans Janssens, 7 May, 2008 - 3:13am login or register to post comments

 
I have
one more species--taken from my backyard, where it belongs! I'll try get some photos soon.

This image is of one of the founding members of the culture you IDed as E. griseoolivata. I have linked it to the other image, which is of one of the offspring.
… Domingo Zungri, 7 May, 2008 - 8:04am login or register to post comments

 
Great!
Thanks for sorting this out.
… Frans Janssens, 8 May, 2008 - 12:47am login or register to post comments

Moved over here
from ID request.

So far, these are thriving under the conditions I mentioned above. I started with four, and now have around thirty. The newly hatched young are white, and almost invisible on the plaster of Paris.
… Domingo Zungri, 2 May, 2008 - 10:02pm login or register to post comments

They may
be happy just to eat moist unbleached toilet paper. In the eighties a lot of research on these guys was done at the Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany, by Drs Zinkler and Langer. I'm sure you can still find the papers they published on raising them.
… margarethe brummermann, 16 April, 2008 - 9:23pm login or register to post comments

 
Mine seem to be doing all right
on a mix of plaster-of-Paris and activated charcoal, kept constantly wet, and a diet of baker's yeast. They're probably eating whatever other bacteria and molds are growing on the wet surface. Thanks for providing the information.
… Domingo Zungri, 16 April, 2008 - 9:48pm login or register to post comments

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