Podura aquatica, information
Class: COLLEMBOLA Lubbock, 1870
Order: METAXYPLEONA Salmon, 1964
family: Poduridae Latreille, 1802-1803
Species: Podura aquatica Linnaeus, 1758. Very common, widespread.
Fully adapted to life on the water, often with thousands on stagnant water.
A very ordinary species, although I have not yet much come across it in Drenthe.
Characteristic are the long claws on the legs.
Species that can be confused with it:
Ballistura schoetti.