#4942 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Bonte springstaart
Orchesella flavescens
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Sergio Ibarra · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Vladimir Bryukhov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © ingridaltmann · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Blaise Verrier-Cruz · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Vladimir Bryukhov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Panu Kujala · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Иван Матершев · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Orchesella is a genus of springtails belonging to the family Entomobryidae.
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 6 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,540 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Bonte springstaart
- scientific name
- Orchesella flavescens
- class
- Entognatha
- order
- Entomobryomorpha
- family
- Orchesellidae
- sightings in NL
- 6
- sightings in Europe
- 1,739
- sightings worldwide
- 2,540
- GBIF records in NL
- 6
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Orchesellidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 606936, Wikidata Q10611181, GBIF 4539661, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.