It took me 15 minutes to get my phone camera to focus on this damselfly, so now everyone gets to see the single good photo I got of it:
Image Description: A photo of a brown forktail damselfly sitting on a green plant. End ID.

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It took me 15 minutes to get my phone camera to focus on this damselfly, so now everyone gets to see the single good photo I got of it:
Image Description: A photo of a brown forktail damselfly sitting on a green plant. End ID.
98 hit 900 unique species observed on inat so here is a (potentially very rare) Isotomurus sp. they recorded recently
My pretty boy FINALLY got an updated design! He is a royal Vatori (bug alien) courtesan, using dance and pheromones to perform stories and poems for visiting dignitaries. He is an entertainer, therapist, and cultural historian.
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By Petter Bøckman, based on Sminthurus viridis (det F. Janssens).jpg by Drägüs - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
Rhyniella praecursor was an early springtail that lived during the early Devonian, about 410-400 million years ago, in what is now Scotland. Discovered in the exceptionally well-preserved Rhynie chert fossil site, it's one of the earliest known hexapods.
It was around 2mm long (~0.08") and closely resembled some of its modern relatives – with distinctive anatomical features like a collophore and a furca – showing that springtails were already well-established in such an early terrestrial ecosystem.
It probably had a similar sort of ecological role to modern springtails, too, being involved in the breaking down of organic matter and the formation of soils.
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by alexcipriano
Springtail (Deutonura monticola), family Neanuridae, order Poduromorpha, France
These creatures are Springtails (subclass Collembola).
These animals were once considered to be primitive insects, but are now understood to be in a closely related groups of hexapods.
photographs by Philippe Garcelon