What is Springtail?
{{Taxobox | name = Springtails | fossil_range = [[Devonian|early Devonian]] <br />to present | image = Orchesella cincta.jpg | image_caption = ''Orchesella cincta'' | regnum = [[Animal]]ia | phylum = [[Arthropod]]a | subphylum = [[Hexapoda]] | classis = [[Entognatha]] | subclassis = '''Collembola''' | subclassis_authority = [[John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury|Lubbock]], 1870}} '''Springtails''' ('''Collembola''') are [[Hexapoda|six-legged]] [[arthropods]]. They used to be thought of as proto-[[insects]], but now they are not regarded as insects. They do not have wings.<ref>Gillott, Cedric 2005. Apterygote hexapods. In ''Entomology''. 3rd ed, Berlin: Springer, pp. 113–125. ISBN 978-0-306-44967-3</ref> They live in the soil, and eat [[fungal]] [[hyphae]], [[spores]], [[pollen]] and other organic material. They need moist [[soil]]s, and have been known to damage [[crops]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shaw |first1=Michael W. |last2=Haughs |first2=G. M. |name-list-style=amp |year=1983 |title=Damage to potato foliage by ''Sminthurus viridis'' (L.) |journal=Plant Pathology |volume=32 |issue=4 |pages=465–466 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-3059.1983.tb02864.x |url=https://eurekamag.com/pdf.php?pdf=001179151 |format=[[Portable Document Format|PDF]]}}</ref> == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == * {{Commonscat-inline|Collembola}} * [http://www.collembola.org/ List of the Collembola of the World] * [http://www.janvanduinen.nl/collembolaengels.html General information on Collembola] {{Arthropods}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q190701}} {{Authority control}} [[Category:Entognatha]] {{biology-stub}}