#4951 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Garden Springtail
Bourletiella hortensis
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Northampton County, PA, USA:© shmugrizzle · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Minnesota, US:© ariellopezpics · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Clark County, WA, USA:© Jack Buchanan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. New York, US:© themicrocosmos · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Bourletiella hortensis is a springtail of the family Bourletiellidae. The species common name is Garden Springtail .
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 5 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,976 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Garden Springtail
- scientific name
- Bourletiella hortensis
- class
- Entognatha
- order
- Symphypleona
- family
- Bourletiellidae
- sightings in NL
- 5
- sightings in Europe
- 392
- sightings worldwide
- 1,976
- GBIF records in NL
- 11
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 386771, Wikidata Q10433992, GBIF 2120616, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.