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Dicyrtoma fusca :
The springtail was moving during the stack and I kept the moving from the antennae in the stack of 3 images in Zerene Pmax so you can see it's realy alive !
I think... But might be Hypogastrura manubrialis.
I think he's been a bit squished :@(
About 1-1.5mm long
Handheld focus stack of 4 images shot with OM1 and the Olympus 60mm macro lens on a 16mm extension tube and the MC-20 teleconverter. Goodox flash and AK diffuser,
From a Collembola hunt in RSPB Swell wood with Steve. Love these tiny hexapods.
The best part of 2mm long
In a corner in Opitter park in high grasses and Geranium robertianum I find this time of the year Heterosminthurus bilineatus and Deuterosminthurus bicinctus. For a second they where together in view...
left : Entomobrya nicoleti
right : Parisotoma notabilis
A very brief encounter, the Entomobrya nicoleti was very quickly gone again...
and a spermatophore...
I could see the springtail is a male but not that the spermatophore is his. On the leaf I could see several spermatophores from the same size like this one.
2 photos merged in photoshop, first one with focus on the springtail and then one with focus on the spermatophore.
The first image again with mp-e 65mm now the lens is repaired after 6,5 very long weeks. The collembola did wait for the foto...
With sweet cute little paws...
Found on moss on a moist, soggy area in the forest. :-)
Meeuwen - Gruitrode
It is cropped a bit to show some of the detail. Otherwise, even at 2x magnification, it was too small to show.
My fav subject lately is a springtail.
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Sminthurides aquaticus (female) in the edge
In the edge, because my mp-e65mm is in repair already 4 weeks again. Now this time the flexcable is broken ...
A Sminthurides aquaticus walking across a piece of wet winecork.
A photo without flash merged with a photo with use of flash and f/4 for the springtail details.
A juvenile, size 02-03mm, from the same place as where I found the springtails from 21-07-2019. This one found in a handful of mud...
Yet more Katianna schoetti from our Staffordshire garden. I found around ten today and this was the largest (~1mm). I've posted it because the of the very dark terminal section of the antennae. I assume that these become darker in mature instars. Virtually black here.
The Springtail found at Mariahof in Bree and one Sminthurinus lawrencei from Opitter to compare with.
From our Staffordshire garden this morning. I decided to look under just one more leaf and found this!
I think it may be Katianna nr schotti, but I only remember ever photographing one individual before (also in our garden). It conveniently stayed on the leaf while I rushed in for my camera. Sadly, a gust of wind them blew it away!
Aquatic springtails by our garden pond. Looks like a dark-form Sminthurides aquaticus and a juvenile (possibly the same species). As usual; most of the S. aquaticus individuals around the pond are this dark form.
In the photo left up (see arrow) you can see where I found this springtail.
Oudsbergen (Neerglabbeek)
I came across this guy about 6 inches behind a couple globular Springtails i was trying to photograph. I could have waited to see if he caught up with them but i have seen springtail bodies lying around this type of spider before, so i decided to block his path with my finger until he turned around and went away.
He wasn't much bigger than the globby's at around 2 mm.