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The weather hasn't been very good for springtail photography (wet and windy). I do still take the opportunity to continue my search for "moustachiod" Sminthurinus springtails though, and managed to get a shot of this one before it blew away!
This individual has an orange base to the "eyebrows". Others I've seen have "tricolour" eyebrows; white at the top, yellow in the middle and orange at the base. Whether this is of any significance I have no idea!
Canon 5D3 + MP-E 65mm (at 5x) + 1.4x Extender + 36mm extension tube + MT24-EX Flash. Magnification 8x. Springtail ~0.6mm. Cropped a bit.
Another Staffordshire churchyard today, this time the one where I find the "alien" springtail species designated Katiannidae genus nov.1 sp. nov. Quite a few around. In the collage is a sub-mature male (top left) and some earlier instars.
These are very small. Taken at 10x magnification and then some significant cropping!
A raft of springtails on a little puddle on my compost bin lid. Pinkish ones- Ceratophysella bengtssoni. Smaller pale ones- Proisotoma minuta. I did rescue them after :)
Found under a Laceleaf Maple Bush on a pot. I am out of practice and I am not able to tell if this is a new one for me. I am hoping Frans or others can help me ID it so I can know if I should take better photos.
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.
Some Springtails are quite plain in appearance. Not sure of the species on this one, but it just looks as though it is made from polished metal.
A juvenile instar (just over 0.4 mm) showing development of pigment patches. Good detail of arrangement of abdominal setae (I know that Frans is interested in this).
[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. Heavily cropped.]
Globular springtail X4. Focus stacked using zerene. Taken handheld using a 4X microscope lens on a sony mirrorless body
So you may have noticed that I'm uploading a lot of Collembola shots at the moment. This is partly because I can't find much else to photograph. But mostly its because a group of us is trying to map Shropshire's springtails, something which we believe has never been done anywhere at County level before.
This individual was 2.5 - 3mm long.
Springtails. Proisotoma minuta. 10X. Taken handheld using my microscope camera rig. Single shot showing the extremely narrow DOF