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First Dicyrtomina sp. springtail of the season on the underside of a fallen leaf. Focus stacked using zerene.
ID'd as D. saundersi
One from my recent trip to the churchyard. this image has had
a heavy crop but I like the pose.I think this is Dicyrtomina Minuta.
Small beetle and springtails on the compost bin lid animation. See original size here www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/45461686434/sizes/o/ for animation
Another Katiannid (Katiannidae Genus nov.1 sp. nov.) springtail shot from the garden today. This male is having a clean-up. Just visible is a saliva droplet that is manipulated around the body by the feet.
Some springtails can also extrude transparent vesicles from the collophore. One of their roles is also to assist in cleaning. The tip of one is just visible in the neck area (see notes on image).
On holiday this week and trying to make the most of it. Walked through another churchyard today and found one spot with a fair few collembola - plenty of food for them I guess. My wife gets cross waiting for me in the cold and so I never get to spend as long as I'd like trying to get snaps but I have a few more pictures to follow when I have a bit more spare time.
November 15, 2019
A lone springtail on a chunk of lichen.
Brewster, Massachusetts
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The springtails like the rain. I quite like the rain too, but maybe not this much. With the change in the season the springtails have changed. Some time ago I adopted Orchesella cincta as my index species for recording effort, on the basis that it is the commonest species in lowland Britain. Thus, when you don't see one specimen for six months, you begin to doubt. But now the season has changed they're back, and they're everywhere, and along with them are some old friends I haven't seen for a few months, Emtomobrya albocincta and E. multifasciata.
Orchesella celsa, one of the Slender Springtails (Family Entomobryidae), under loose bark on a fallen log
Springtail survey 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 juvenile of 0.45 mm; possibly instar 2.
Canon MP-E65mm Macro (at 5x) + 1.4x tele-extender + 25mm extension tube + diffused MT24-EX Twinlite flash. Cropped.
High magnification Springtail video. Taken with my little sportscam with an industrial c-mount high magnification lens fitted.
sportscam cost £33, Lens cost £30, C mount adapter, M12 ext tube and UV/IR cut filter around £15. Taken in low light with no additional lighting - handheld
A selection of "typical forms" in the garden this morning, but I was attracted by this individual. Typical Group 1 (pale abd.6) but unusual in having a square of orange/red pigment just in fromt of abd.5. ~0.9 mm in length.
[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 sexes and the various instars. As a result of the initial findings, Frans is suggesting that there are two distinct groups:
Group 1 - where abd.6 in adults is pale and there is little red pigmentation along the dorsal surface of the abdomen, and
Group 2 - where abd.6 in adults is dark and there is (sometimes) significant red pigmentation along the dorsal surface of the abdomen..
Canon MP-E65mm Macro (at 5x) + 1.4x tele-extender + 25mm extension tube + diffused YN24EX flash. Cropped.]
A couple of mature individuals in the garden today. Here's the smaller of the two (~1.25 mm). A Group 2 individual with dark abd.6..
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.
[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.]
I was looking at the huge Tree Ear Fungus I found and spotted this little Springtail crawling in its folds.
I'm a bit rusty on collembola as I've not shot them since last winter then again I didnt shoot anything during the summer either was a tiny dude approx 0.5mm.
A juvenile globular springtail photographed in the garden this morning. Length ~0.45 mm.
I'm assuming that this is a juvenile of the "novel" species Katiannidae Genus nov.1 sp. nov. It was photographed in the same area as where I'm seeing adult instars and looks "right". I'm attempting to photograph and measure the various instars of this species; male. female, juvenile, adult.
During the weekend I was in one of the most preserved floodplain forest. There were a lot of beetles and nice springtails. Most of them I found at home during selection of sieved materials.
Pictures were made ba Canon 5D mark II + 2x extender and 25 mm macro ring.