A Garden Springtail in Harford Co., Maryland (5/11/2018). Determined by Frans Janssens/BugGuide.

Garden Springtail in Montgomery Co., Maryland (4/30/2025). (c) Pablo Tapia Ossa, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).

Garden Springtail in Caroline Co., Maryland (Date obscured). (c) the knower, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).

Garden Springtail in Caroline Co., Maryland (Date obscured). (c) the knower, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).

Garden Springtail in Caroline Co., Maryland (Date obscured). (c) the knower, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).

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Bourletiella hortensis

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Collembola
Order:	Symphypleona
Family:	Bourletiellidae
Genus:	Bourletiella
Species:	B. hortensis
Binomial name
*Bourletiella hortensis* (Fitch, 1863)

Bourletiella hortensis is a springtail of the family Bourletiellidae.^[1] The species common name is garden springtail.^[2] It feeds on moss and fungi.^[3]

^ "Bourletiella hortensis (Fitch, 1863)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
^ "Bourletiella hortensis (Fitch, 1863) - Garden Springtail". Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
^ Hågvar, Sigmund; Pedersen, Arne (August 2015). "Food Choice of Invertebrates During Early Glacier Foreland Succession". Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research. 47 (3): 561–572. doi:10.1657/AAAR0014-046.

Bourletiella hortensis

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