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Dicyrtomina ornata
Focus stack of 9 images. Frans, I don't know if this view helps your research, but it was easier to get than a side view showing the right details when I tried last night. I will keep trying, though!
I caught a few springtails in glass tubes because they don't really care to sit still for long when out on the door frame. But placed in a tube with a teeny bit of water, they will settle down.
Male Allacma fusca (ID-cred: Frans Janssens)
A 3mm long globular springtail on a leaf.
Two exposures manually stacked.
Dug this up from the archives inspired by this posted by flickr-member Adrian Jones. Obviously, this is not nearly as fascinating as his find but at least it's a springtail!
This is from Öland/Sweden (see geo-tagging).
These small creatures were probably less than ~2mm long. The yellow main part of the photo was the stipe or stalk of the mushroom, with the lower part of the cap at left.
Fiscalini Ranch Preserve,
San Luis Obispo Co., California
Apparently Collembolans (springtails) are no longer considered insects.
Entomobrya nr imitabilis, will have to wait a week or two Frans , still to small to photograph :-( 1.2mm found this one opposite side of river down stream so got 2 places to look now. I wonder if 1.3mm is there adult size , jan & feb this year 1.3mm was the only size I found . all approx. look a right fool trying to measure a springtail that small, and on the move :-))
A young small springtail, about 1mm, taken with MPE at 5x mag and uncropped, on a blade of grass. Very lucky find, there are lots of blades of grass and few springtails!
Tiny. I didn't see them my Nephew found them. Under a broken pottery shard.
Brocton Heights Cannock Chase Staffordshire UK
Springtail on a greenhouse strut. Focus stacked using zerene. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/32586571082/ for a 3D version
Globular springtail on sun chair. Focus stacked using zerene. Milk bottle top placed behind it for some colour
A couple of juveline instars in the garden today, both ~0.45 mm. I'm trying to find more of these for the survey. They've been a bit thin on the ground!
[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.]
In spite of all the rain and good numbers of springtails over the last few weeks (dominated by Dicyrtomina saundersi), Isotomids have been largely missing. However, the recent haul of leaf litter had good number of Isotoma viridis, a species I have not seen since last winter.
Someone sent me some springtails to identify which they had found grazing on a church wall. My first thought was Hypogastrura viatica but I've spent two days banging my head against the chaetotaxy and they're not! They have 111 clavate tenant setae (c.f. H. viatica: 233; H. purpurescens: 232), so H. manubrialis is a possibility but frankly I'm unconvinced by the mucro, so they're going to remain as Hypogastrura spp. However, I'd welcome comments from anyone who is better with these than I am.
UPDATE: This is Hypogastrura manubrialis.
Thanks to Frans Janssens for the ID.
Found during a night hike in Cuc Phuong national park, Vietnam.
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 ?
There's lots of little globular springtails around locally at the moment. When I say "little", I'm talking 0.5mm or less. So today, in an attempt to get maximum magnification, I finally got around to trying the MP-E 65mm macro lens at full-extension (5x magnification) with a 1.4x tele-extender and a full set (68mm) of Kenko extension tubes. I imagine this gives around 9x magnification. The shot is lit with an MT-24EX Twin Lite flash.
So, this is what one of these little springtails looks like through the viewfinder with this setup. This is an un-cropped image from a full-frame Canon 5D3. The springtail is about 0.5mm. I'm not sure of the species here though.
At this sort of magnification, it's somewhat challenging to actually find the subject through the viewfinder (these are barely visible naked-eye) and to then then get decent focus. This was the only reasonable shot that I managed (from around 20). Just needs more practice! The camera was supported on a beanbag.
Found this pretty little thing on a window cill.
Useful link for these:
ws1.roehampton.ac.uk/collembola/taxonomy/%28185ENint%29.html