Welcome to our weekly podcast with longtime Anchorage Daily News garden writer and author Jeff Lowenfels and co-host Jonathan White. It’s a companion to Jeff’s weekly ADN gardening columns and his ...

New high-speed footage and microCT scans reveal how globular springtails, tiny hexapods living in leaf litter, achieve the ...

While they may be mistaken for fleas, springtails are small, harmless organisms that (fortunately) don’t bite, sting, or transmit disease. They also do no damage to food, clothing, furniture, or ...

Springtails are those small hexapod invertebrates that are known to spring at the hint of foreign movement, thus acquiring their unique name. Though they form an active part of the soil food web by ...

In all these many years, I have never written a column on springtails, and yet I am pretty sure you have them all over your yard. In fact, you have more of them than any other arthropod. You probably ...

Have you noticed a smattering of dark spots on your snow piles this winter? Though it look like dirt, you may also be encountering some visiting springtails, or "snow fleas" as they are often called.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Springtails are harmless, but addressing them helps maintain a clean, comfortable, and pest-free home. Springtails thrive in moist ...