Today’s micro-creature has six legs, long antennae, and a segmented body… but it’s not classified as an insect (anymore). Springtails are one thing you can be sure to find throughout the winter months, and they’re fascinating. Even though they don’t belong to the insect club, because they have interior mouthparts and no wings, they’re worth a profile.
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The last few days the weather has been exciting with dark skies full of drenching rain approaching on the horizon.
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At first glance they look like a collection of the same, very small dark insects with a red to brown head, orange thorax and an abdomen of white lines on black. But after further inspection, there are two distinct types of insect on the fence posts near Mount Pisgah’s main entrance.
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The rain-saturated reefs of mosses and lichens growing throughout the arboretum soften my eyes and quiet my mind. The Ruby-crowned Kinglet scribbles a path through the canopy.
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What super-cool insect has some of the traits of a walking stick, a praying mantis, and a water strider but is none of those things? It’s this week’s star: The thread-legged bug.
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