Springtail Matrix

I visited a local walled garden/orchard that always has plenty of globular sptingtails this time of year. Here's a selection:

 

1. Sminthurinus elegans;

 

2. Sminthurinus aureus forma reticulata (or possibly S. reticulatus);

 

3. Orange form of Sminthurinus aureus (or possbly S. igniceps);

 

4. Orange form of Sminthurinus aureus;

 

5. Dark form of Sminthurinus aureus (with yellow eyebrows and antennae);

 

6. Possible Sminthurinus forma reticulata (but with very short antennae);

 

7. Dark form of Sminthurinus aureus (but with darker eyebrows and antennae). Possibly the atrata form;

 

8. Possible Sminthurinus reticulatus.

 

All these (and more) found in a short search under fallen Apple leaves.;

 

Done