Photographic evidence shows that the ventral tube can be used as a tentacle‐like mechanical aid for self‐righting from an inverted position. It is proposed that the extraordinary length of the vesicles of the ventral tube in globular springtails has been evolved in order to combat postural instabilities resulting from spherical symmetry of body form.
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J. H. Brackenbury (1990) studied this question.
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