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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!
The pseudoscorpion catched a descaled Tomocerus sp. and on top of the leaf you can see an Orchesella sp.
A few day ago, I've found this springtails, the biggest I've met (about 2-2,5mm in lenght). It was more collaborative than my previous springtail, it move slowly with some breaks, and I took the opportunity to take some stack at 5X magnification.
This is the first I have combined, in the future I will show you other stack of it...
Handheld field stack (24 shots) taken with 6D, MP-E at 5X and diffused Meike MK320 on flexible arm, not cropped.
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This is my first time out with the camera for a couple of weeks. I though this was a small moth or fly it wasnt behaving like a normal Collembola. It stayed quite still for a while and it was very high up its legs were practically vertical like a human.
About 3mm long. Always a bonus when they stand still! Is it me, or do these guys look like Ermintrude from the Magic Roundabout?
A globular springtail in our Staffordshire garden today. It's one of the Dicyrtomina species, possibly D. ornata. Seems to be feeding on some micro fungi (?) growing on this fallen Cordyline leaf.
Pretty hairy guy...
Mitutoyo 20 NA 0.42, tube lense: ITL200 (Nikon)
Illumination: oblique and polarized backlight
Acanthanura “henderickxi” One of the big ones. This was very sluggish and slow. I wondered at the time if it was still alive so I didn't take many photos.
Found : Meeuwen - Gruitrode, behind Pollismolen in a muddy place of the forest.
First time I found this total dark form. 2x the same springtail on the photo.
A couple of pictures from todays macro session at Swell Woods. Lots of Globular Springtails to photograph which is always good fun!
I had a check around our Staffordshire garden yesterday, first time after the recent snow had melted. Lots of globular springtails around including this mature Katiannid.
I was interested how the micro-droplets on the dorsal surface seem to be indicating the structural detail of the cuticle. Perhaps it's preparing to moult?
I was looking in out garden pond this morning for the globular aquatic springtail Sminthurides aquaticus. There were lots of juvenile forms about. I then spotted three of this pink poduromorph individuals, floating on the surface. I was pleased because I have not seen anything like this on our pond before. I managed to lift this one out on a piece of stone to photograph it. It's ~0.8 mm in length. The dark, wet stone gives a pleasing background and reflection.
Wasn't sure what they were and thought at first that they could be a pink (albino) form of Podura aquatica (if such a thing existed)? Jan (www.janvanduinen.nl) has now suggested the answer; Brachystomella parvula. Thanks Jan. Not a species that I've encountered before!
Finally got a decent shot of one of these tiny springtails. This is a 2x magnification and slightly cropped. Definitely takes some patience but it's worth it.
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!
This one is actually grazing on the table, having leapt from the log it had arrived on.
Haven't got a species for this one. I've said this before, I know invertebrates shouldn't be considered cute... but come on. This was photographed in a wildlife reserve not open to the public. We were on a field study recording species. It is a shame the public can't visit this special place, but I have to say, it means it is an incredible haven for so many things and very little disturbed.
Around 0.8mm - 0.9mm long, these springtails have appeared from nowhere on the lumps of suet that I feed to the the rest of my menagerie. I assume that they are Sminthurinus domesticus, a species which survives only in indoor locations in this part of the world.
This 0.75mm long springtail was wandering around on a carpet of fungus on the underside of a piece of fallen bark
Vane Coppice, Coalbrookdale.
These springtails i found eating bacteria or alga slime on a tree trunk. They are from the family Neanuridae, i can't say the correct species as i am not a collembola expert. They are between 1 and 2mm big.
Die Spingschwänze fand ich, als sie ganz ruhig Bakterien und Algen auf einem Baumstamm weideten. Sie stammen wohl aus der Familie der Neanuridae, genauer kann ich sie nicht bestimmen.
Bild vom Pilzfotografentreffen 2020 in der Eifel.
Panasonic Lumix G9
Panasonic Lumix 45-175mm
Mikroskopobjektiv PLANX 4x
f5.4
ISO 800
1/6s
132mm
-0,3ev
stack of 84 pictures
Yesterday, I found my first ever Bourletiella hortensis; one of the globular springtails. It was in our Staffordshire garden. Today I went searching in the same area and found another. I assume it's the same species anyway!
Although described as "common and widespread" in the UK, I note that the excellent Shropshire Springtail Atlas (our neighbouring county) has no records and the Staffordshire atlas just one record from the 1920s. Whatever, it's always a treat to find a "new" species.