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Another one from today for the Katiannid springtail survey that I'm doing for FransJanssens@www.collembola.org. Again, another interesting individual.
This one (around 0.75 mm) looks like a breeding instar (no obvious gut content colouration) so could be an early adult instar. It's quite dark too. What a fascinating species!
Springtails - Found on a damp, fungus filled bridge over a stream at Snipedales. Quite a while since I have photographed these tiny creatures.
As springtails recover from the drought, populations currently contain many recently emerged juvenile stages I am struggling to identify with certainty.
Back out today in search of these little springtails again, not sure which this one is but very cute anyway.
Canon 5Dmkiii, Fitted with a 2x Entender, Plus a MP-E65, MT-24EX Flash fitted with my diffusers, one handheld shot using a monopod.
Back out today in search of these little springtails again, not sure which this one is but very cute anyway.
Canon 5Dmkiii, Fitted with a 2x Entender, Plus a MP-E65, MT-24EX Flash fitted with my diffusers, one handheld shot using a monopod.
I found this unfortunate Dicyrtomina saundersi globular springtail this morning, infected with fungus. I\'ve seen photographs of the same condition photographed by Edward Nurcombe (Eddie The Bugman) before, but have not seen it myself until today. Not a particularly jolly shot for the festive season I know, but interesting!
A seven exposure focus stack at F5.0, (using Zerene Stacker).
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.
Springtails (Collembola) form the largest of the three lineages of modern hexapods. They are no longer classified as insects (the other two lineages of modern hexapods are the Protura and Diplura).
Collembola are usually found in and around moist, rotting vegetation. The majority of species are tiny; some are elongate and others roundish.
Springtails are not plant parasites.
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 ?
Springtail on a damp windowsill, Isotomurus palustris. Not sure if I've seen this one before.About 2.6mm body length. Focus stacked using zerene
...do'nt know the perfect ID.....
(...one of Dicyrtomidae.....???)
...this one - sitting on old wood - is ~ 2 mm, but found last year in autumn some of 3,5 mm too...
..it has long legs and is also running sometimes ~ three time faster as, for example, Allacma fusca....
...dear Frans, hope, you can help............
November 15, 2019
A lone springtail on a chunk of lichen.
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A raft of springtails sailing on a puddle of water on a compost bin lid. Ceratophysella sp. Every now and then the raft would split apart as a springtail tried to jump off. Good illustration of Newton's law of motion
Yet more from my garden colony of the "novel" globular springtail (Katiannidae Genus nov.1 sp. nov.) that I've been photographing and measuring for FransJanssens@www.collembola.org. Another "interesting" example here.
A while back on seeing this though my hand-lens, I would have thought "another male". That's because of the orange/red pigmentation on the abdomen. It's apparent now though, that some females exhibit similar pigmentation although (perhaps), in a slightly different "arrangement". It's just too confusing! Anyway; I reckon this may be a female and just wait for Frans' comments. Length ~1.3 mm.
Another quartet of globular springtails from today's excursion to the local churchyard. Quite good conditions; ground dew-covered and not too much breeze.
All these around 0.7mm long. The one top left with the pigment "moustache" matches some that I saw last year. Looks like a Sminthurinus aureus with some reticulate patterning on the abdomen. Sminthurinus aureus don't typically have moustaches though and I think that last year, Frans Janssens was speculating as to whether they could possibly be a Sminthurinus aureus/elegans hybrid.
Bottom right is Sminthurinus elegans. This is the ornataform lacking the central, dorsal pigment stripe. At this site, they occur more frequently than the nominal form.
The other two look like Sminthurinus igniceps. Bottom left shows the "usual" colouration that I see at this site, top right a paler form.
Canon 5D3 + MP-E 65mm macro lens (at x5) + 1.4x Extender + 68mm of extension tubes + MT-24EX flash. All individual shots cropped considerably.
So this critter and a bunch of his dearest friends were running around on a white plastic garbage bag amidst whatever sparse remains of soil and detritus were left behind from the small potted plants that said bag was being used as a liner for underneath. That shiny bit of scaliness on the back must have confused me because I thought at the naked eye's glance they had wings, but it was not so.
Tiny little critters, they had to be a millimeter or two, at my best guess. This image is cropped a fair amount. I shot at the max magnification on my reversed 18-55mm Nikon kit lens. Which means at 18mm with the manual focus all the way extended.
Neat little things but man are they busy bodies! Tough to find one at rest and tougher still to get it into focus before it takes off again!
Edit: Lepidocyrtus sp.
Thanks to Frans Janssens for the ID!
It is always a great privilege to be working in such a special and beautiful place as is Gorongosa National Park. What makes it even more special is that you get to work with some of the most brilliant experts in all aspects of natural history. I don't know how many times I must have walked past an incredible phenomenon on the way to the restaurant at Chitengo without even giving it a glance except perhaps a subconscious thought that somebody had parked a car in a funny place and it had been leaking oil. Somebody should clean up this mess.
Today, thanks to Piotr Naskrecki our leading entomologist, I found out that they are in fact millions of minuscule insects called Springtails. Vast herds of tiny herbivores "grazing" the algae that grow on the paths. It is like watching the Serengeti Wildebeest migration from outer space