Tiny jumping insects

I have every year small holes in my leaves of a lot of veg and plants. A lot also get bubbly and twisted. I am told this is flea Beatle but having a look at them on he web they are defiantly not in my garden. What I have noticed are very thin pale things about a mm which jump like a flea. Again, they are not the black flea beetle. Does anyone know what they might be?

Where you are finding them is obviously too wet:

http://www.orkin.com/other/springtails/

Oh... what a shame

perhaps they are the only maritime hexapods?

back to the classroom for this ecologist

sav

If I remember correctly the two are different: marine springtails are insects and the ones in wet soil are arthropods..... aren't they?

And Pluto was always a planet!

Pluto the "planet" has been there for a lot longer than Pluto the puppy, although they were both "discovered" in 1930.