ABSTRACT
Actively growing mosses and lichens are usually encountered at locations where the relative humidity in microhabitat remains at or near 100%, except for brief periods during sunny days. Beds of mosses and patches of lichens become habitats for aquatic insects because they catch and hold rainwater and dew. The habits of many of the hexapod species present in waterlogged vegetation are not known well enough at the present time to adequately classify. A completely different kind of habitat is found in moors, bogs, raised bogs, and poor fens. The names of these habitats are basically derived from local names for basically the same kind of habitat. Hexapod species in the order Collembola are often associated with mosses and lichens, as are tiny larvae of species in the order Diptera, mentioned in subsequent sections. Cold rainforests have soils that are water soaked and covered by thick layers of forest litter with dense growths of mosses and many lichens covering the ground.
