Dear of troy,

Please overlook Maverick, he's not from around here and he says strange things, like "snaggly bunny" and "People don't kill people, guns do!"

Here is more about springtails...

* Springtails in caves eat Cave Cricket droppings.

* Although most people don't give a whit about springtails, the average person has probably eaten hundreds in his lifetime...some hop in your open mouth at night.

* My snaggly pal, Joesph's big hope is to find a cave up north that was covered with ice during the last glaciation. Then all specialized adaptations accomplished by the springtails such as blindness, loss of pigmentation, increased antenna length, etc. would be limited to the last 10,000 years and the rate of DNA change could be fixed in time.

- Milo the Snag