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Jubilada Palo Alto, CA(Zone 9a) Feb 18, 2014

It's very tiny (the flower itself is about 1/4-inch across).

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Feb 18, 2014

This is a springtail, a primitive arthropod in the order Collembola closely related to true insects. It might be in the family Entomobryidae - see http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/image/73953860 for an example.

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Jubilada Palo Alto, CA(Zone 9a) Feb 18, 2014

Flapdoodle, I checked your link, and you are right! Thank you so much! How cute is that little bug!!!

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