Collembola!

Everyone interested in arthropods has a favorite group. Mine is clearly collembola. I became interested in them early in my career as an entomology graduate student at the University of Illinois. They’re such a unique group. Significant decomposers of organic matter. Recessed mouthparts. Furcula and tenaculum. Collophore. Huge morphological diversity. Sperm packets. Parthenogenesis in some. [...]

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