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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.
A springtail I found on thesurface of a rockpool on the beach this could be under 10 feet of water now.
This video was shot at 1:1 was not expecting to find this which is Anurida maritima
Today in the forest I have been searching for springtails.
Left to right : 1. Lepidocyrtus sp., 2. Isotoma viridis 3. Isotomurus graminis, 4. Sminthurinus aureus, 5. Tomocerus minor, 6. Isotoma viridis.
Thanks Frans Janssens :)
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.
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.
Filmed and Processed by Helen
Using Sony Handycam HDR-CX730E with Raynox MSN-202 & Edited in Sony Vegas
Pseudoscorpion 'Neobisium carcinoides' - Size 3mm including pincers.
This pseudoscorpion encounter was filmed yesterday, as part of a 6 hour session on location in natural woodland in Staffordshire. As is our way, non of the action you are seeing here was staged or manipulated - we like to try to capture the moment, but I would never endanger a Globbie, or any other creature, on purpose. Just to add, the Globbie escaped this close encounter, and as far as I witnessed, nothing sinister happened to the beautiful yellow one from earlier in the clip either.
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'Ice and Chilli' by Ghost.
I had a satisfying time searching for globular springtails in a local churchyard this morning. Here we have Calvatomina nr superba (top-left) and three different Sminthurinus aureus individuals. These were photographed at 8x - 10x magnification and then cropped a bit too.
I kept the aperture at F/5.6 today in an attempt to control diffraction. Depth-of-field in very narrow, but image quality is improved. It's always a matter of balancing the two.