The team discovered that insect-like springtails use their furcula appendage, which is a bit like a tail, to orientate their bodies mid-air ready for landing. And the secret to their miraculous ...

Scientist Adrian Smith of Ant Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences captured slow motion footage of tiny ...

Springtails are tiny, measuring less than 6 millimetres in size. They have their very own springboard, a small lever called a ‘furcula’ folded beneath their abdomen, held under tension.

In a recent article published in Nature Communications, researchers presented a novel approach to fabricating an omniphobic membrane inspired by the unique surface structures of springtails, known for ...

Frons. Front of the head above the clypeus (Fig. 3). Frontal costa. Broad vertical ridge on the front of the head (Fig. 3). Furcula. Forked projection from posterior edge of tenth abdominal tergum and ...

But at one to six millimetres in size, they can be difficult to spot. They are named springtails because if they feel threatened, they can spring into the air using an appendage that sits underneath ...