Sperm on a stick for springtails
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AIR TIME Springtails (Orchesella cincta shown) use a springlike appendage to fling their tiny bodies, just a few millimeters long, into the air.
© G. Drange/Biopix
AIR TIME Springtails (Orchesella cincta shown) use a springlike appendage to fling their tiny bodies, just a few millimeters long, into the air.
© G. Drange/Biopix