#4866 · 🪼 jellyfish, starfish, worms & co
Shaggy Springtail
🇳🇱 Harige springstaart ·Orchesella villosa
🪼 Jellyfish, starfish, worms & co 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Wieringerwerf, Nederland
📍 Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands
📍 Emmaweg, Meerssen, Limburg, NL
📍 Anna Paulowna, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © AJC ajcann.wordpress.com · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. © Norman Levey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Ken-ichi Ueda · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Harsi S. Parker · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Jared Shorma · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Wieringerwerf, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands:© Pádraic Flood · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. Emmaweg, Meerssen, Limburg, NL:© roger_777 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Anna Paulowna, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · 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 75 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #20 most seen of the jellyfish, starfish, worms & co in NL.
- 4,385 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Shaggy Springtail
- Nederlands
- Harige springstaart
- scientific name
- Orchesella villosa
- class
- Entognatha
- order
- Entomobryomorpha
- family
- Orchesellidae
- sightings in NL
- 75
- sightings in Europe
- 2,273
- sightings worldwide
- 4,385
- GBIF records in NL
- 320
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Orchesellidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 487130, Wikidata Q10611187, GBIF 2120979, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.