There’s something about zooming in on the life of bugs that’s so otherworldly. The springtail bug, for example, is a six-millimeter-long aquatic insect that’s able to blast itself off surface water; ...

As the days become warmer, you may notice some tiny little black specks among the top of melting snow piles. But what looks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s something about zooming in on the life of bugs that’s so otherworldly. The springtail bug, for example, is a ...

More than 400 million years ago, an insect-like animal called the springtail developed a small protein that prevents its cells from freezing. The globe was hot and humid. The sea was teeming with life ...

Springtails are harmless, but addressing them helps maintain a clean, comfortable, and pest-free home. Springtails thrive in moist areas, so fixing leaks, reducing humidity, and drying damp spaces are ...

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Alias: Springtail, or often they are simply called collembola. These are tiny little insects that are more often mistaken for crumbs or dirt left around the house. They look like a small hairy ant or ...

It’s not just panic and chance. Some of nature’s extreme self-launchers, the springtails, turn out to be much more acrobatic than scientists thought. Springtails, poppy seed–sized cousins of insects, ...