Springtail - Protophorura aurantiaca
I went on a wildlife walk with a group of Shropshire naturalists on Wednesday. None of the group had experience of Collembola (springtails), so I said I'd try to photograph those that I saw. Typically, many I hadn't seen before and couldn't identify!
This is such as example. It's one of the Poduromorpha, which are slow-moving soil and leaf-litter dwellers. This one was quite active and at first I thought it might be a very yellow Kalaphorura burmeisteri. It doesn't seem to have the correct body shape; being widest at the penultimate abdominal segment. All help gratefully received!
[Update: Thanks to Eddie and Frans for the ID]
Springtail - Protophorura aurantiaca
I went on a wildlife walk with a group of Shropshire naturalists on Wednesday. None of the group had experience of Collembola (springtails), so I said I'd try to photograph those that I saw. Typically, many I hadn't seen before and couldn't identify!
This is such as example. It's one of the Poduromorpha, which are slow-moving soil and leaf-litter dwellers. This one was quite active and at first I thought it might be a very yellow Kalaphorura burmeisteri. It doesn't seem to have the correct body shape; being widest at the penultimate abdominal segment. All help gratefully received!
[Update: Thanks to Eddie and Frans for the ID]