Ant Lab's video: The Extremely Fast Animals in Your Yard - Springtails

Collembola (commonly called springtails) are the smallest, fastest, and most common arthropods living in the soil, right in your backyard. I've been working on describing there super-fast jumps, filming them up-close and in ultra slow motion! The elongate-bodied/slender springtail (family: Entomobryidae) in the beginning and throughout the video is (probably) in the genus Homidia. The globular springtail (family: Dicyrtomidae) is (probably) in the genus Dicyrtomina. But, the specimens need to be evaluated by a taxonomic expert for an accurate species ID. Thanks to vision research for letting me demo this camera: https://www.phantomhighspeed.com/products/cameras/tmx/7510 Check out the other 2 springtail research videos on this channel: https://youtu.be/MXeSnWY6DNc https://youtu.be/Qu01EUeE5PM Music licensed from soundofpicture.com