Don't drink the springtails.

[urbpan]

You've got collembolans (specificaly Sminthurids) in your water dish...

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[brian-z.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'd never heard of those, don't think I'd ever seen them before, though I just read your older entry about them. Wow.

Not Sminthurids but Dicyrtomids

[(Anonymous)]

Dicyrtomina ornata to be more precise.
In the US also called Dicyrtomina variabilis due to its very variable colour pattern. And currently lumped with Dicyrtomina minuta by US taxonomists...

Frans Janssens
www.collembola.org