Globular springtail with dewdrops. Focus stacked using zerene

Not sure what this Ptenothrix Springtail got into - birthday cake?

Taken in Battle Ground, Clark Co., WA, USA

Moana, Lake Brunner, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand.

Globular springtail raft. I scooped these out off a water bucket with a milk bottle lid. After the photography I dropped them onto a sponge - they do eventually drown if they can't get off the water surface

Clockwise: Entomobrya albocincta, Entomobrya nivalis, Vertagopus arboreus.

Springtail Isotoma riparia on an encrusting lichen on a wall

Taken in Yamhill County, OR, USA

Thanks to Frans Janssens for ID.

Springtail raft on a puddle on a compost bin lid. Ceratophysella bengtssoni

Fantastic Submission from Alan Kendall! Collage of foxes and hedgehogs sharing their meals!

Springtails on a clay pot X4

Springtails on water surface

Globular springtail - natural light - focus stacked using zerene

Springtail on a fence rail. Isotomurus pseudopalustris, focus stacked using zerene

Springtail on a fence rail. Focus stacked using zerene

Tomocerus minor (thanks Frans Janssens)

One view, one flash, and he was gone !

Larger than the previous one, but found under the same piece of wood.

Thanks to Frans Janssens for identifying this.

Globular springtail on the garage door. Focus stacked using zerene.

See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/32461407701/ for a 3D version

Pogonognathellus sp. Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC, USA.

Springtail grazing on a fence rail. Focus stacked using zerene. Isotomurus palustris.

Globular springtail on a water barrel. Focus stacked using zerene

Springtail investigating a raindrop in a filter brush

Springtail

From a few miles northeast of Pittsburgh PA.

old photographs but would like to know which species.

Globular springtail - natural light

Well, these are definitely the hardest springtails I've tried to photograph so far! These are the best I can do at the moment- there's something about them that doesn't take a flash so well, Still, I had fun! Hopkin describes it's gait as a tiny old man hunched up in a coat and it really does look like that! It's blind too. The dark patches on top of the abdomen are the four gut compartments, full of food. The resolution is at the limits of my set up, which is very frustrating... I need more light and more magnification... oh, and a Canon 5D mark iii please. Just to point out- these are all extreme crops of 10:1 and 11:1 photos...

As Frans points out, this is the UK's smallest springtail, at 0.25mm adult. These are mostly 0.2mm with the suspected juvenile at around 0.12mm. Seriously, unbelievably, camera hand-numbingly small.

Damp springtail on dew covered windowsill. Focus stacked using zerene

Low angle shot of a globular springtail on a fence rail. 2 shot focus stack using zerene

Taken in Battle Ground, Clark Co., WA, USA

Thanks to Frans Janssens for ID.

ID?

Tiny springtails. Proisotoma minuta on a leaf in the compost bin. All less than 1mm body length

Just waiting for rain to rejuvenate the forest. Katiannina macgillivrayi. You can bet that I plan on culturing them ;)

This beautifully coloured variety is a new type for me. This is the first time i have photographed one.

Globular springtail on grey wheelie bin lid. 1.9mm body length

Damp springtail on fence rail. Focus stacked using zerene

Springtails sailing X4 on a puddle on the compost bin lid

I've been playing around with my wife's Panasonic FZ8, reversing my 50mm f/1.8 in front of it. This gives an impressive macro performance, this springtail is only 3mm long!

I'm loving taking video, I'm absolutely itching to get a 550D and a 100mm L macro.

The soundtrack is artificial. I was surrounded by birdsong, but also next to a road! I hate the sound of traffic so I used a track with only birdsong.

Thanks to Frans Janssens for the ID.

Photo taken in Mt. Isarog national park, Philippines.

Globular Springtail -Dicyrtomina saundersi