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#1 Offline millsart - Posted September 3 2019 - 11:42 PM

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Hi I found these bugs living with my messor ants. Anyone knows what is it? It's too small for a naked eye to measure but less than 0.5 mm and I live in Malta central Mediterranean. Are they springtails or booklice ?

 

 


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#2 Offline gcsnelling - Posted September 4 2019 - 2:11 AM

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Psocoptera



#3 Offline mbullock42086 - Posted September 4 2019 - 12:14 PM

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great for a dry bioactive setup, they don't seem to hurt anything and don't attack molting critters and reduce grain mite numbers by stealing all the food.

my absquatulator colony has huge numbers of them and they're doing just fine



#4 Offline Antennal_Scrobe - Posted September 4 2019 - 12:46 PM

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These must be those things I saw in my Mini Hearth a while ago.


Currently keeping:

 

Tetramorium immigrans, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Myrmica punctiventris, Formica subsericea

Formica pallidefulva, Aphaeogaster cf. rudis

Camponotus pennsylvanicus

Camponotus nearcticus

Crematogaster cerasi

Temnothorax ambiguus

Prenolepis imparis


#5 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 4 2019 - 3:36 PM

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book lice






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