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What kind of pest control product can I get to control springtails?

I am interested in adding some family information to the Collembola. Do you have any preference as to how this is done? Sphongophorus 16:10, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Taxonomic category

This article lists Collembola as order, but the reference for suborders and families (the online checklist) lists them as class and has significantly different subcategories as well. Is this due to new revisions? --Yerpo (talk) 10:46, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

It would appear to be very recent reclassification; the problem is it isn't clear how much of this is published revisionary work, as opposed to simply being used in this one online checklist. If there are published works on which the scheme is based, then there is good reason to change the WP classification. The website seems to be the work of recognized authorities, additionally, so perhaps it's more a matter of determining who, if anyone, may still be using the classification presently in use in WP - if no one is using it, then by all means, go ahead with an update (though note that it would evidently mean eliminating the taxon Entognatha from WP except as a redirect, and you would need to determine how diplurans and proturans are being classified at present). Making one change in WP taxonomy can often have repercussions, so it's good to proceed cautiously. Dyanega (talk) 22:23, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
According to The Insects - An outline of entomology by P.J. Gullan & P.S. Cranston (2005), the Entognatha grouping is an artificial one. There are two types of entognathy - one shared by springtails and proturans, and the other seemingly unique to Diplura. Because Diplura seems to be more closely related to the rest of the insects than to the other entognathans, the grouping is evidently paraphyletic. Diplura, Protura and Collembola are therefore treated as classes. Now, I'm not a taxonomist to say whether this view is commonly accepted or not, but a colleague of mine (who is) said that this book has it right. I also left a message to Sphongophorus who contributed a little here, but he hasn't been around in two years, so he'll probably not respond. What do you suggest? --Yerpo 15:56, 1 December 2007 (UTC)