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springtails vs watermites / hopping bugs

To: Aquatic Plants Digest <Aquatic-Plants at actwin_com>
Subject: springtails vs watermites / hopping bugs
From: "H. Hoekstra" <hugo at greed_nl>
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 16:59:12 +0100
CC: cdwells at concentric_net, mark.fisher at tpwd_state.tx.us
In-Reply-To: <199904032048.PAA08822 at acme_actwin.com>

Thanks to all responding to this 'hopping bug' question. 
The reason I thought they were Hydrachna (water mites) was because I read
a book which discribed 'small hopping bugs on the water surface, etc' as 
water mites. Chris Wells and Mark Fisher are right when they say water mites
have no body segmentation. These bugs do, I took a quick look with a
magnifying 
loop and also saw that there are 2 species. They don't look like the 
springtails in my encyclopedia (ofcourse there are so many different
species..)
When I have some time I will get my loop (sorry no microscope here) and
draw a small picture and try to put that online somewhere or email it to
Chris and Mark and maybe they will be able to get a more definitive
conclusion. 

Best regards,

Hugo Hoekstra

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