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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,
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...
My fav subject lately is a springtail.
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Another flowerpot in the garden with at the moment only some weeds, very well populated with S. trinotatus. I wonder how they always get into those flower pots and why...
It is cropped a bit to show some of the detail. Otherwise, even at 2x magnification, it was too small to show.
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.
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.
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.
Does anyone have an ID for this globular springtail?
It was found in damp beech forests on the underside of wood (very moist with losts of fungi).
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!
54 image focus stack taken with OM1 and Olympus MC-20 teleconverter, Kenko 16mm extension tube and Olympus 60mm macro lens.
Cecil County, MD.
Today I was in Opglabbeek on a area with heather. It was raining yesterday and perhaps it was time for finding again Heterosminthurus claviger. In large bushes old grass between heather I found some males. This one would stop running for a photoshoot...
Stack in Zerene : 6 images
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.
canon eos60D, MP-E65mm + ringlite MR14ex
stack in zerene : 8 images f/7.1 iso 100, 1/60sec
08-01-2015
A couple of pictures from todays macro session at Swell Woods. Lots of Globular Springtails to photograph which is always good fun!
A 2mm long Protaphorura aurantiaca plus a 0.8mm juvenile - Tomocerus minor. Thanks to Frans for ID & notes.
Found on the underside of fallen beech leaves, Lodge Hill, Shropshire.
A little snail that I found under a log. I'm not sure what is directly underneath it but you can see a tiny springtail hiding under the edge of it's shell on the left side of the photo. Photographed in Maryland (4/18/21).
Springtails at Swell Wood a few days ago. Many thanks to Max Thompson Photo and Ellie Hilsdon who scurried around finding likely-looking logs while I mostly sat at the picnic table!