Dicyrtoma 1 - Sminthurides Duke University, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
I was TAing the Duke course "The Diversity of Life" for Dr. Alec Motten in 2003 when I found Duckweed flowers, not an easy task! I was looking through jars of pondwater with duckweed for more flowers when I spotted this critter walking on top of the water. I took these photos by holding the lens of my camera (an Olympus pocket digital) up to the eyepiece of a dissecting microscope. I e-mailed them to a springtail specialist (I'm afraid I can't remember whom) who tentatively identified them as genus Dicyrtoma.
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