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Collembola
Tiny lavendar arthropods with ridges and six legs. They move very quickly when they move.
Massing on unfinished softwood lumber that was recently oxygen-bleached. Appearing in very wet weather in the 50's F.
I posted a spotting of these a year ago almost to the day, and I haven't seen them in between times. They appear on the same deck, en masse. That lilac blur in the upper right is a springtail on the move, springing through the air (the photo was taken with a very slow shutter speed, about 2 seconds).
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Interesting spotting and information!