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- Dicyrtomina ornata
I found this springtail a few days ago on a wooden bench in my backyard. You almost can't see them with your naked eye. But through the viewfinder they look amazing!
Oh and in case you're wondering, that bright yellow background is just a leaf ; )
Hidden between the roots of strawberry plants under a smal flower pot.
What do I do now with my plants that need a large flower pot ?
I went looking for springtails in a local walled garden today. Not much around, just a few Jordanathrix and this. It's one of the poduromorpha springtails, but I can't say any more than that. Was very small; between 1-2 mm.
Started out not a bad day but the clouds soon appeared and turned even colder, but did manage to get a few macro shots, spotted this little Dicyrtomina saundersi Springtail feeding on wood
Mollusc egg cluster with springtails. Not certain if these are small snail or slug eggs. Cluster about 4mm diameter on the underside of the compost bin lid. Focus stacked using zerene
Another from a series of shots I'm doing for FransJanssens@www.collembola.org to establish the size and differences between the various instars of this Katiannid springtail. It was first recorded in the UK in 2008.
This was the only one I could find this morning; looks like a male but the overall orangey colouration is (perhaps) a little different from the ones that I usually see. I'll continue photographing and measuring these for as long as the colony remains active. This individual ~0.85 mm.
Canon MP-E65mm Macro (at 5x) + 1.4x tele-extender + 25mm extension tube + diffused MT24-EX Twinlite flash. Cropped.
A male (I think) from today ~0.9 mm. I'm on the lookout for males in an attempt to see if there is a clear differentiation between Group 1 and Group 2 males.
[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. As a result of the initial findings, Frans is speculating that there are two distinct groups:
Group 1 - where abd.6 in adults is pale, and
Group 2 - where abd.6 in adults is dark.
Canon MP-E65mm Macro (at 5x) + 1.4x tele-extender + 25mm extension tube + diffused MT24-EX Twinlite flash. Three images blended in PSE. Cropped.]
Two juveniles of just over 0.4 mm from today. There's a piece of slate that they seem to congregate under and I can position this to get some shots.
[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. As a result of the initial findings, Frans is speculating that there are two distinct groups:
Group 1 - where abd.6 in adults is pale, and
Group 2 - where abd.6 in adults is dark.
Canon MP-E65mm Macro (at 5x) + 1.4x tele-extender + 25mm extension tube + diffused MT24-EX Twinlite flash. Cropped.]
Globular springtail on a fence. Pretty certain this is a fairly rare male. The dew drop may be on his spermatophore stalk
These are beautiful little Springtail with their iridescent colouring at about 1.5mm.
Taken with MP-E 65MM, 2X converter and defused flash at 7X magnification
A Globular springtail on water with some pink card providing the colour. Taken around x4 life size at f8.
Mon second collembole !
Pentax SMC-M 40/80 avec lentille macro +10dioptrie et tubes allonges de 56mm
(Springtail - Dicyrtomina ornata de moins de 1mm)
Went out looking for the globular springtails that I've been seeing recently, that have dark pigment "moustaches". They all seem to have disappeared. Virtually all the "globulars" at my local "patch" are this reticulata form of Sminthurinus aureus.
Canon 5D3 + MP-E 65mm (at 5x) + 1.4x Extender + 36mm extension tube + MT24-EX Flash. Magnification 8x. Springtail ~0.6mm. Cropped a bit.
A very nice globby on the water butt this morning. Didn't use the extension tube for this so came out quite well I think with just the 100mm macro and cropped a bit.