CLOSED: SWARMS of tiny purple bugs in the soil

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pmbooks Redlands, CA Dec 01, 2014

Found these swarming this morning, off the side of a recently dug trench (where we're putting in an irrigation line). The location is Southern California mountains, at 5000 feet. Any ideas? Kinda scary...

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pmbooks Redlands, CA Dec 01, 2014

Not sure why images are not appearing...they're jpegs, about 500KB each.

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pmbooks Redlands, CA Dec 01, 2014

Okay....it might be they need admin approval first, but I'll upload to a server just in case:

http://www.pmbooks.com/swarms1.jpg

http://www.pmbooks.com/swarms2.jpg

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pmbooks Redlands, CA Dec 01, 2014

Okay, I found it, they're "springtails."

http://bugguide.net/node/view/609471

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sallyg Anne Arundel,, MD(Zone 7b) Dec 02, 2014

wow, bizarre-o
several other people had trouble uploading photos yesterday, maybe temporary problem due to Cyber Monday

adding photo to test

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