When you share your leaf-litter environment with psocids (barkflies), life can be problematic. I wish I could say that I managed to catch this globular springtail mid-jump, but it's actually caught on a silk thread. Barkflies construct these silk meshworks and shelter under them.

The situation gives an opportunity to show a globular springtail underside. This one looks like a Sminthurinus species. The jumping organ (the furcula) [EDIT: furca - see Comments!] is clearly visible.

Canon 5D3 + MP-E 65mm (at 5x) + 1.4x Extender + 36mm extension tube + MT24-EX Flash. Magnification 8x. Springtail ~0.5mm. Cropped a bit.

I haven't been able to identify this ~2mm distinctly pinkish springtail. Juvenile form?

Isotomidae: Tetracanthella

Small globular springtail - natural light. Taken around 3:1

Isotomidae: Isotominae

globular springtail #1

One from today's images of my garden survey. A mature Group 2 female ~1.35 mm. Gender determined by presence of sub-anal appendage (SAA). See note on image insert.

[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

Group 2 - where abd.6 in adults is dark.

Canon MP-E65mm Macro (at 5x) + 1.4x tele-extender + 25mm extension tube + diffused YN24EX flash. Cropped.]

Springtails on a clay pot. Sminthurinus domesticus

Isotomidae: Desoria

Globular springtail on the greenhouse roof. Focus stacked using zerene

Springtails on the fungus spore fields X2. Focus stacked using zerene

Globular springtail - Sminthurus viridis - in a lawn daisy. Taken at 5:1

Taken at 5:1- around 2mm body length

Globular springtail X4. Focus stacked using zerene

This is the same globular springtail as in the previous image; showing front and rear views. Like all the tiny springtails that I've photographed in the last couple of days, this (at ~ 0.7mm) was very active and difficult to photograph. It was however, just visible to the naked eye; which helped!

Canon 5D3 + MP-E 65mm (at x5) + 1.4x Extender + MT24-EX Flash. Cropped.

[Update: Eddie Nurcombe (Eddie the Bugman), reckons this is Deuterosminthurus pallipes. Thanks for that Eddie. A "new" species for me!]

Springtails out sailing again on a puddle of water.

Dewdrops on a springtail sitting on a sunchair. Focus stacked using zerene

Globular springtail on the greenhouse roof. Focus stacked using zerene.

Struggling furiously across the surface of a bucket of rainwater. With some smaller springtails, too.

Springtail

Springtail on clay pot X4. Xenylla sp.

Globular springtail on the greenhouse glass. Focus stacked using zerene stacker

on an ivy leaf

Someone or other always must be the loser.......................

Springtail feeding on a fence rail. Focus stacked using zerene

After seeing jon 1972´s pictures of springtails on water I started looking in our pond to see if there were any there with no luck.

Last night it rained and I went to have a look around this morning.

Was surprised to see this little guy floating around, not in the pond, but in a bowl next to the pond.

After taking some shots I managed to get it to climb on a leaf and got it out of the water.

After a while it dried and released the spring and dissapeared!

Abdon Burf (near the highest point in Shropshire), England.

Collected from damp Juncus dominated area.

This one has distinctive white tipped antenna.

SO5986

3 May 2016

a Dicyrtomina saundersi springtail found outside the visitor centre in Hastings Country Park

R6 and Laowa 25mm f2.8 @ 5x

A Katiannidae hanging out in the corner of my gate locking mechanism

Beaten from while clover. I believe these are Sminthurus viridis (= lucerne flea), and Sminthurinus elegans. The lucerne flea is 1mm long, the other is 0.5mm. The individuals in the main shot are not the same as those in the insets.

Shropshire Invert Group field trip, Aston Locks.

Thanks to Frans for ID confirmation.

Springtail grazing on a clay pot

Dew drops on a springtail- Entomobrya intermedia. Focus stacked using zerene

Thanks to Frank Janssens for the ID.

Found during a hike in Danum Valley, Sabah.

Picture taken by a fellow macrophotographer ( Bandit 1 on POTN) the only shot I've seen of a springtail springing. Hosted with permission of the photographer. Notice the spring tail has sprung - it's normally latched up underneath the springtail

Well, I don't know, cos S. violacea has a black eye patch, even as a little un and this one is most definitely red. It does have the white strip but I don't know.... I went back to Kingsdon garden nursery with moss and old stone on my mind. And sure enough...

There were quite a few juveniles amongst the moss but they'd buggered off by the time I sorted the camera out. Their overall colour through the loupe was an orangey pink... Really pretty.

This guy had a giant something (maybe a giant setae) sticking out of an occelli on one of her eye patches. She was still walking around though and it didn't seem to effect her that much.

Found at Mayville Ledge Beech-Maple Woods SNA in east-central Wisconsin. Dodge County, Wisconsin, USA.

Presumably Calocera sp. for the fungus. Species ID help appreciated. Springtail is an Orchesella sp. Thanks to Frans Janssens for providing the determination on bugguide.

Found on fallen tree in mixed hardwood forest.

Single exposure, uncropped, handheld, in situ. Canon MT-26EX flash unit, Ian McConnachie and plastic cup diffuser.

Tiny springtail that I couldn't get close to as it was in a crevice but guessing it is Sminthurinus sp. but happy to be corrected.