Tomocerus sp

Grey Springtails

I noticed some grey things jumping around in my Onicus Asellus culture today.  I have had an odd morph of Onicus Asellus that I have been breeding and I was looking for babies when I noticed a couple of hundred grey things jumping round.  I have white and pink springtails but never had dark grey so I thought they were fleas at first.

It turns out that they are grey springtails called Tomocerus sp..  They also seem to breed well in the culture.

My original Onicus Asellus culture cam from Thompson Park in Monroe Township, NJ so the springtails must have hitched a ride with them when I found them in October of 2017.

I have a short video of the springtails and the isopods that I was talking about above.