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In the recent snowy weather I thought I'd see how the Globular Springtails were faring and turned over a few rocks in my garden. To my surprise there were still lots of springtails attached to the underside of the rocks, many partially set into the ice. As the light reached them they slowly started to move and these two shots are of a couple of individuals wandering around the ice.
December 1, 2017
A bunch of springtails showed up on our deck this morning.
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A grain of sugar for size comparison ,it also helped to slow him down , he kinda liked it.
First time iv'e wrote on a sugar crystal.
A rather damp springtail X4. Focus stacked using zerene. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/51680799531/ for a 3D version
These were quite plentiful in the heating ducts under the floor of the deserted church in East Lydford! Nature always finds a way to fill a space. Unfortunately, they move so fast that by the time I'd lifted the twigs into a better position for the camera, they'd buggered off. This was the only one that hung around...
I do like these springtails. The lack of pigment and the fact that they're so often living in the dark just endears themselves to me somehow. And there's something always fun about crawling around in dark caves and cellars. The heating ducts were no different really!
Here's a link to my other A. pymaeus photo from last year, from Goatchurch Cavern, a beautiful cave in Somerset. www.flickr.com/photos/89396233@N00/7954137594/
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Globular springtail on compost bin lid. Focus stacked using zerene. About 1.3mm body length. Dicyrtomina saundersi
Globular springtail X4. Focus stacked using zerene. Taken handheld using a 4X microscope lens on a sony mirrorless body. The springtail is carrying some nematodes
So you may have noticed that I'm uploading a lot of Collembola shots at the moment. This is partly because I can't find much else to photograph. But mostly its because a group of us is trying to map Shropshire's springtails, something which we believe has never been done anywhere at County level before.
This is a tiny thing, 2mm max.
I recently posted some springtail images from our Staffordshire garden. Frans Janssens (of collembola.org) was interested in the dark Sminthurinus forms, particularly "eyebrow" markings. I've been looking for these in the garden and concentrating on getting the eyebrow in focus for him. Here's a selection. I'm looking for more!
These have all be cropped by a similar amount.
Back by popular demand the ballroom dancing Collembola, yes I found my first dancing Deuterosminthurus pallipes of 2013. I was actually trying to photograph the female on the left, she seemed oblivious to anything, she was more interested in eating. Suddenly this male appeared (on the right) and tried to engage the female in a courtship dance and boy was he persistent, initially she wasn't bothered, but they did break into a brief courtship dance after much gesturing and head butting by the male. The female really was not that interested in the end.
Crop in first of comments :o)
Anyway, taken with my MP-E at x5 on 72mm of extension tubes at an F/6.3 aperture. Really working with a very fine DOF and was happy to get detail on both the male and female here. I had the leaf on a bench weighed down by my magnifying loupe, it was quite a windy afternoon, the leaf was placed back onto the same type of plant afterwards to allow the Springtails to transfer onto new leaves. These guys are just about visible to the naked eye at about 1mm for the larger females :o)
Globular springtail raft. I scooped these out off a water bucket with a milk bottle lid. After the photography I dropped them onto a sponge - they do eventually drown if they can't get off the water surface
twee vliegen (springstaartjes) in een klap. Two birds (springtails) with one stone.
Isotomurus maculatus is new for me.
The green one is I think an Isotoma viridis.
They are on the Dutch forum of Waarneming: forum.waarneming.nl/smf/index.php?topic=417187.0
One from my trip out with Ed yesterday. As I'm new to springtail photography help with IDs would be appreciated.
Thanks for faves and comments.
There are plenty smaller, I'm sure. But this springtail was well under 1 mm so I was happy to be able to see some of the nice pattern on it.
It's a new species (new to me) found early this year in my backyard in Cedar Rapids Iowa.
Id help appreciated.
A return visit to Swell Wood for more springtails. Numbers were definitely down on previous visits.
I love the lemony colour of these.
Not a perfect photo but my first of a springtail. And, the first with my new mt-24ex flash. Too cold for insects but these guys were quite active living in old garden mulch. Body about 3-4mm.
Another from my garden survey today. At ~1.3 mm, this is an adult instar (I seem to remember seeing a few at 1.4 mm last season, but nothing any longer). This has some orange/red pigmentation along the dorsal surface of the abdomen. It was thought at one time, that these "red-backs" were male. Results from last season's survey showed that females have this pigmentation pattern too.
[Part of a garden survey of the "novel" springtail Katiannidae Genus nov.1 sp. nov. that I'm doing with FransJanssens@www.collembola.org initially, to establish the size and differences between the various instars.]
Canon 5D Mk III + MP-E lens (at 5x magnification) + 1.4x tele-extender + 25mm extension tube + YN24EX flash. Two images blended in PSE. Cropped.
Crop of male springtail - cropped from www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/3049068645/. Equivalent of 11.4:1 magnification