Frank Ashwood on Nostr: I was blown away by this very unusual white-pigmented morph of a familiar giant ...

I was blown away by this very unusual white-pigmented morph of a familiar giant springtail species (H. spinosa), which I found recently under a log in a tree fern forest in Kaikōura, Aotearoa.

These springtails normally have either yellow or orange coloured spines, so this was a very special little sproinglet indeed!

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