Mystery Critter

What has six legs, but is not an insect; moves around by flipping itself from place to place with a forked “tail;” lives with hundreds of thousands of its neighbors in a square meter of soil; and appears with millions of its buddies on late winter snow looking like a sprinkling of pepper or a stripe of soot?

Answer at the end.


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