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RE: bug ID (no sound)

Subject: RE: bug ID (no sound)
From: "Wil Hershberger" <>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 08:21:45 -0500
Very cool Mike.  I wonder if there is an audible sound produced when
they spring away.
Thanks for sharing,
Wil Hershberger

-----Original Message-----
From: Marty Michener  
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 5:43 AM
To: 
Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] bug ID (no sound)


At 10:32 PM 12/7/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>You folks have been great at bird, herp, and insect song IDs,
>but I'm wondering what this December hatching is.  I noticed
>it from it's lavender color and thought they were seeds at
>first, but when the specs squirmed and jumped off my fingers
>I thought was really puzzled, especially this late in the
>Illinois autumn.  I shot yesterday through a loupe, and there
>were still some left today, so I grabbed a 35mm lens and shot
>some vid clips through it backwards (optically, not in time).
>
>Anyone have any idea what they are?  I fear they're termites.
>
>http://feldman.gidnoy.com/photos/lavender_hatchlings.jpg
>http://feldman.gidnoy.com/movies/Purple_bugs.mov
>
>Sorry, there's no audio of interest here.
>
>-- Mike

They are much smaller than most insects - I am guessing Collembola - 
springtails - harmless, "primitive" insects, (the only species I know 
floats on salt tide pools on the New England coast in summer - Anurida 
maritima - but obviously not yours).  They hardly seem to move until
they 
release their "glue-bolt" or furcula under their abdomen and suddenly 
catapult themselves to a distant (random?) location.  These are likely
what 
we see when water suddenly saturates the winter soil and they emerge on
top 
of the snow - called, likely enough "snow fleas", according to Don
Borror: 
Achorutes (now Hypogastura) nivicolus.  He also says most feed on
decaying 
organic matter, and can do damage in gardens, etc.  But, as you can see 
from the following website - their picture looks very little like 
yours.  Good luck.

http://www.borealforest.org/insects/insects1.htm


--  best regards,  Marty Michener
MIST Software Assoc. Inc.,  P. O. Box 269, Hollis, NH 03049
http://www.enjoybirds.com/

Don't blame me, I vote in New Hampshire!

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