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Another of these tiny, darkly-pigmented Sminthurinus springtails; possible one of the dark forms of Sminthurinus aureus.
The way the fifth abdominal segments is fused helps to differentiate them, but I have to admit to still having some trouble understanding exactly where the different abdominal segments start and end. Perhaps one of the experts could kindly annotate the image for me.
Canon 5D3 + MP-E 65mm (at x5) + 1.4x Extender + 36mm extension tube. Cropped a little.
Trip out this morning the my Friend Ed Phillip to a local Church yard with Ed showing me how to photograph them. So this my first Springtail image. Hope to have ID on it soon.
Thanks Ed really enjoyed this morning.
Collembola froma short safari in my garden on a cold day. First time in a while looking for this guys.
A rather dark Group 2 female from the garden this morning.
[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 water barrel lid. Focus stacked using zerene. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/25777240615/ for a 3D version
Springtails 10X. Taken handheld using my mk2 microscope lens camera setup. Focus stacked using zerene
A springtail, this particular one is Bourletiella arvalis (thanks Eddie!), on a blade of grass.
Here's a (very shaky) video of some more. I'm not quite sure if these are the same species as the one in the picture, they were no where near as yellow (more of a browny colour) and had much more purple pigmentation. I think they may have been slightly smaller, if that's possible, or they could have just been better camouflaged.
Edit: And it's a boy! Thanks Frans, I'm amazed you can determine that from this image!
Another shot from today's visit to the local colony of a "novel" globular springtail; Katiannidae Genus nov.1 sp. nov.. You can see just how many there were on their favourite section of a local Staffordshire church wall. Once I would have been thrilled to see just one of these, today they were present in their hundreds!
A single shot at F5.6 here. These springtails are very active and there was no opportunity to attempt a focus-stack so a very narrow depth-of-field sadly, and a lot of glare from the wet surface.
Canon 5D3 + MP-E 65mm Macro (at 5x) + 1.4x Tele-extender + ST24-EX Twin Lite flash. Most of these springtails around 0.8mm or less.
Globular springtail. This one has the longest rear end hair I've seen- one of them just reaches the left side of the frame making it about 1.6mm long
I missed the shot of them altogether but I was still surprsed to find them in one place.
Hypogastrura sp., Katiannidae, Lepidocyrtus sp.,
Globular springtail on the underside of a fallen leaf. Focus stacked using zerene. Dicyrtomina saundersi.
A few captures of various springtails found in my garden this afternoon , only spent about 20 minutes or so out as it was cold and wet, but found a few
Main shot Dicyrtomina saundersi
Second capture Ceratophysella sp.
Third capture ..... Not sure
Here's the only individual I found on my first springtail foray this morning.
Frans is speculating that there may be two distinct groups; Group 1 where abd.6 in adults is pale, and Group 2 where abd.6 in adults is dark. Abd.6 in this individual is dark (almost as dark as abd.5). It is therefore a mid-sized (~ 0.8mm) Group B.
[Part of a garden survey of the "novel" springtail Katiannidae Genus nov.1 sp. nov. that I'm doing for FransJanssens@www.collembola.org to establish the size and differences between the various instars.
Canon MP-E65mm Macro (at 5x) + 1.4x tele-extender + 25mm extension tube + diffused MT24-EX Twinlite flash. Cropped.]
Thanks to Frans Janssens for the ID.
Found during a night hike in Bukit Barisan national park, Sumatra, Indonesia.
Springtail on a fence rail. Focus stacked using zerene.
See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/32678701625/ for a 3D version
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. Here's a mature female (feeding instar); 1.25mm long. Lateral and posterior shots. I haven't seen any individuals larger than this so far.
Another dark-form Sminthurinus springtail from leaf-litter at the local churchyard today. Most likely Sminthurinus aureus f. atrata. I saw another of these and a Sminthurinus igniceps today too, plus large numbers of the larger Dicyrtomina species.
Canon 5D3 + MP-E 65mm (at x5) + 2x Tele-extender + MT24-EX Twinlite flash. Cropped a bit. This individual about 0.7mm.
Glorious NZ! Check this mother out! This is the sort of thing I was hoping to find....
I have no idea about this one, other than it's probably one of those NZ specific springtails. It looks like a Pseudachorutinae sp. with the shape and the pointed buccal cone but I just don't know. What i do know is that it's very, very chubby with a bad paint job. Found on very rotten wood both times I found them, down in the bush below my friend's shack. And pretty big too- 3/4mm.
Yet 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. The process is proving most interesting!
I'm only seeing and photographing a couple of individuals each day, but finding quite a few interesting "variations". A while back, I would have assumed that "red-back" individuals would be males and those without a redback; females. That's somewhat been turned on its head with the discovery of redback females. It appears though (in the small number that I've seen) that red-backed females have the orange/red pigmentation in discreet patches on a non-pigmented cuticle. In males, the dorsal abdominal cuticle appears as a diffuse orange/red. In that case, this would be a female.
Interestingly; the dorsal abdominal area in this individual has no black pigmentation. I haven't seen this pattern before. I haven't put a scale on this image because I'm not quite sure what the magnification of the lens was set to. I think though that this individual was ~1.25 mm long.