I Love...

To see springtails in love...

(In the garden at home.)

I think... But might be Hypogastrura manubrialis.

I think he's been a bit squished :@(

About 1-1.5mm long

Deuterosminthurus pallipes

3 males, 1 female

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

Springtail size : +/- 0.7mm

Sminthurinus sp.

Could be : Sminthurinus aureus forma maculatus

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...

Springtail (I think)

male and female.

Born in a mini container with some leaves and wet kitchen paper...

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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Left : Sminthurinus aureus

Right : Sphaeridia pumilis female

Found : Opitter park

Sminthuridae ?

left : Folsomia quadrioculata

right : Parisotoma notabilis

Found : Opitter park

The black springtail liked the black pebble more than the white ones, to hide on. You can also see the little vesicles at both sides. :-)

Le collembole et la goutte de rosée

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 tiny orange spots are springtails that I was unaware of until editing the photo.

Tiny blue/gray springtails different than the round ones. Still less than a millimeter in length.

Springtail

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.

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.

Maybe Sminthurus sp. 7 at collembola.org?

Up : E. multifasciata that lives in my garden.

Down : E. nigrocincta from Tenerife.

To compare. :-)

Collage

Bicolored eyebrow (dark part like the legs and antennae, and a higher light part )

Opitter

Dicyrtomina sp.

empty egg with bug ... springtail maybe

A springtail from a garden macro safari I think this is a Sminthurinus-lawrencei

I didn't realize I had already posted this just a day or two before!

Vertagopus arboreus

canon eos60D, MP-E65mm + ringlite MR14ex

stack in zerene : 8 images f/7.1 iso 100, 1/60sec

08-01-2015

Ptenothrix renateae

Springtail Symphypleona

Not the best photo but the only one I found today... I'm a little out of practice

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).

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.