Moving around

My Efforts

Click for short video of these creatures moving about:

How these small soil creatur es measure up

Check out Mesostigmatid mite (Pergamasus sp) chom p

.....Rhinocerus beetle bumbling about

while Vine weevils hatch ou t ......

Entomobrya sp juvenile digesting

.....Woodland Springtails sniff about , while Oribatid mites move around ...............

and over here Sminthurid springtails...

.....Symphylans From pasture spring

while here is a Snow Flea according to Tom Waits (part of his Army Ants song...

Wotonearthisthismovinglikethi s ??????

....Introduction to Soil Animals: Part 1

and Part 2 .....

Others Efforts

We are sure that many of you can do better than this. Better focus, better chat, better creatures. So we have set up a Youtube Channel to collect short video clips (say around 1/2 minute)

Soil Critters Dr. Patricia Q. Richardson gives us a fascinating look into the critters living in healthy soil, especially our springtail and mite friends.

Terry Tollefson Extraction and microscope studies inc. tardigrades and rotifers.

Allison Jack Selected soil invertebrates inc. millipedes, pseudoscorpions, mites

Bioturbation

Oribatids Feeding

Nematodes

Onychophora eating beetle

Springtails jumping and again - and role of collophore

New Scientist Springtails jumping in close-up

Isotoma delta laying eggs Globular springtail being born

Clay animation of the basics of soil food web.

Nematode caught by fungus

When you watch you have to ask: "What substance is SO sticky?"

Thank you to Matthew Shepherd for this...

This is possibly the best video of live soil creatures. It starts with oribatids walking about, then a pseudoscorpion followed by some sort of predatory mite, then tiny sminthurid springtail, then big symphlyans (like centipede). Later woodlice.

Sultan Qaboos University (Oman). Are these creatures in a garden there? If so, it shows how ubiquitous our soil creatures are - the same the world over.