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Too many subsegments on the antennae for Bourletiella hortensis? Or just a brightly coloured one? Will check the book again....
I hope to learn if the setae can determine the sex for this species. I need help confirming the sex of these please.
This one may not be clear enough.
A tiny white aster with hunchback collembola, probably Lepidocyrtus paradoxus. This type seems to like living flowers, not just decaying things.
Found by the bike trail in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Corrections appreciated.
A few years ago when I was pretending to be a mycologist I became aware that the community was using PlaqSearch (Google it) for differential staining of fungi. This is designed to show if you have dental plaque so it is safe to use as it is designed to go in your mouth. In fungi, some tissues stain blue and others pink. I still have a bottle of this kicking around in my microscope kit and every time I make slides I think "I should try it on springtails". And so I did.
My first attempt was on Isotoma viridis preserved in 70% alcohol - a 5 minute stain, destain in water and mount. The results were underwhelming, just a few random pink patches resulting from inefficient destaining I think. In retrospect, since PlaqSearch is water-based this was predictable because of the hydrophobic nature of the Collembolan cuticle.
I had another go, this time with a cleared specimen.
Nothing really of interest, so I conclude that PlaqSearch doesn't offer anything of interest to the Collembologist (if that's a word).
I was up at King Alfred's tower today, at the top of Stourhead gardens and in the woods I found this chap. Very stunning looking with the long setae, with all the associated leaf-sticking problems that come along with such ostentatiousness!
I am keeping this young O. cincta in a test tube to observe the changes in color and size as it grows up. No real change in coloration yet but it is so cool to me to see the broken antenna has regrown! Give me a month or two and I hope to have successfully completed the experiment ;)
P.S. to Frans: I wish I could follow through with the other tasks you have set me with my microscope, but I managed to break it ;-/
The same day that I found the mating Sminthurides springtails I also found these Pauropods! Although this wasn't the first time I'd seen Pauropods, it was the most I've seen at one time. They were all darting around, making it hard to get an accurate count, but I probably saw between 10-15. This one ran right by a small Onychiuridae springtail, providing a good idea of how tiny even the largest of the Pauropods were.
This is such a beautiful little springtail. The markings are outrageous for the UK ! Springtails are the bomb. The business. They rock.
Another one from today; a medium-sized individual ~0.85 mm. Frans is speculating that there may be two distinct groups; Group 1 where abd.6 in adults is pale, and Group 2 where abd.6 in adults is dark. Not sure if this is a mature specimen, but seems to be Group 2.
[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.]
These are photos of my untamed yard. This is section of my tiny creek when it is low.
Taken in Battle Ground, Clark Co., WA, USA
Globular springtail on a damp water barrel lid with a flower behind to give a little reflected colour
Theses are the first globular springtails I've knowingly ever seen, let alone photographed. They are also the smallest things I've ever attempted to 'tog, being about 1mm long. These shots are (un)comfortably beyond 1:1, being taken with a Raynox DCR250 & 45-175 zoom lens at the full 175mm. Discovered this one walking around on my shed door-handle.
If you want to see how this is done properly, check out these two photostreams: www.flickr.com/photos/odonataman/
and www.flickr.com/photos/50342657@N05/
Thanks to Eddie the Bugman for ID!
These are quick little buggers and everywhere in the greenhouse at the moment. Could they be P. alba? It seems to have 2 ocelli, but then again, It might not be Pseudosinella anyway, it just looks like it to me! There doesn't seem to be any scales on the antennae and there seems to be no colour in the scales apart from the iridescence and the slight brown mottling under the scales....
While I was trying to get a shot of a springtail on the move, I had no idea that another tiny collembola was there. Had I known, I would have focused on that cutie!-Taiwan
AJC Springtails: Isotomurus Identification Guide
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Globular springtail series. On a damp water barrel lid with milk top behind.
Focus stacked using zerene
Watch THE MOVIE! I made of the things I observed this day!
Are these springtails? I found them on rocks and on ice around the shore of Lake Ontario, Canada. It seemed like they were walking on water but I think there may have been a thin sheet of ice that I couldn't see. You can see what I mean in the video during the clip of the earth worm in the water. They are also hard too shoot because they are so active. Constantly crawling around or jumping at light speed. (maybe a little faster) It looks like they have very short wax secretions.
In the video:
planarian flatworms
earth worm
spring tails / snow fleas?
an insect with wings and cool antenna
algae
About the video:
This is a collection of video clips I took one day. I was photographing algae with my new macro lens and noticed all kids of things moving around in the cold water. The lake is still frozen over, yet these insects and little creatures have adapted to the extreme temperatures. I also made the music. I used reason to make the drums and garage band to record the dulcimer and some vocals as well as adding fx. The song isn't done yet but it's coming along nicely.
Tiny springtails around 1mm body length - Proisotoma minuta - feeding on dew covered fungal mycelium.