These are from a moss culture I found laying around. They originally looked like mites (biggest individuals ~.5mm), but upon recording seemed to be entognathans. I was going to leave it at that, but upon seeing one hop, I decided to check collembolans. Neelidae stood out, and based on distribution (I'm in NYC) and the large antennae, I think this species would make the most sense. I'd like to hear what some people more experienced with Collembola think. I plan to try culturing them, albeit the container I found them in clearly has shown to be doing that already. A certain species of mite is visible living with them too.

I know the general collection site, and roughly when I obtained them, but they are technically captive bred, so I'm leaving it at Casual for now.

Dwarf Solifugid

strange little beastie scurrying around, very rapidly, in the sand between the grass clumps on a sparsely vegetated railway reserve; fast moving so had to be trapped in a cut off 2 lt coke bottle for photographing. Is it deformed? [answer NO, this is what Moleromans look like] if so, it certainly didn't hamper its mobility, and what about those armaments - the 2nd and 3rd legs have rows of pink vicious-looking spines ventrally and laterally while the palps end in a whole cluster of spines, like mace heads. I think in the 2nd photo there is a thin first leg just visible below the righthand palp