Since September 2003 the author has been making a minimum intervention study of a square metre of land and the immediate surrounding area in his garden in the East Sussex Weald at Sedlescombe near Hastings, UK. By April 2016 over 1000 species of plants and animals (none of which has been deliberately introduced) had been recorded and the area featured on many TV and radio shows including Spring Watch, and The One Show.
Friday, March 31, 2006
Bristly springtail
From time to time I tap the teasel head that lies in Mice & Red over my net and a variety of invertebrates fall out. Yesterday there were a couple of flea beetles and a bristly springtail, Neanura muscorum (see above). This is a common and widespread species, though little recorded in Sussex and not one I have seen before in the metre quadrat.
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