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.]

Springtail raft in a small puddle on the compost bin lid

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)

Predatory Snout Mite and Symphypleona springtail

Taken in Battle Ground, Clark Co., WA, USA

Springtail on an indoor orchid

globular springtail on the greenhouse glass with an orange bottle top placed behind it

ID?

Globular springtail

Baby springtail X4. Sminthurinus domesticus

Globular Springtail on a fence rail. Focus stacked using zerene

Springtail Entomobrya intermedia on water barrel lid. Focus stacked using zerene

I think Entomobrya assuta?

A cloud of springtails. Floating in a pool of water

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

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Globular springtail. Dicyrtomina sp. Focus stacked using zerene. Natural light

Globular springtail. Dicyrtomina sp. Focus stacked using zerene. Natural light

Dew covered springtail. Focus stacked using zerene

Springtails on compost bin

A "raft" of springtails floating on the surface of a bird bath

I think it's Sminthurus viridis. Ditchling Down.

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Dicyrtomina saundersi admiring my ability to add scale bars to macro shots.

But not as much as me.

Globular springtail X4 on a water barrel. Focus stacked using zerene

Another baby Dicyrtomina springtail on the underside of a fallen leaf on the lawn. Focus stacked using zerene. About 1.5mm body length. ID'd as Dicyrtomina saundersi

Springtail not sure exactly which one,TQ 40104 68783

The real size is 1.31 mm, magnification is 5.18

Globular springtail on a fence. Focus stacked using zerene

Globular springtail suffering from early morning dew

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.

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A big globular springtail on a clay pot. As large as I ever find them at 2.35mm body length. Focus stacked using zerene

ID?

Globular springtail X4. Focus stacked using zerene

Springtail - Orchesella cincta

Globular springtails on the side of my large pond just near the water line. I assume they are Sminthurides aquaticus although I'm puzzled that it is only the small ones picking each other up by the antennae - I thought this was part of their courtship behaviour ?

I am very lucky to have this rare type of Collembola in my small garden, however i found a new one and few others in my local park living with lots of Katiannidae.

Springtail on water barrel X4

Taken in Battle Ground, Clark Co., WA, USA

Thanks to Frans Janssens for ID.

A selection of Globular Springtail portraits captured at Swell Wood.