Springtail from the allotment stack of 4 shots.

The real size is 4.73 mm, magnification is 1.68 Orchesella villosa

This is such a beautiful little springtail. The markings are outrageous for the UK ! Springtails are the bomb. The business. They rock.

Springless springtail in leaf litter X4. Probably Kalaphorura burmeisteri

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

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....

Baby springtails on a clay pot

Globular springtail on a grass blade

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

Springtails scaling the north side of a slug. Focus stacked using zerene

Uncropped shot taken at 5.2:1 with the monster.Just seeing if it was possible :) shot was handheld- well hand rested

see www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/82887579/ for setup

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!

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.

Springtails on their way to work on the rim of a compost bin - mainly Ceratophysella species

AJC Springtails: Isotomurus Identification Guide

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Shot at 3.7:1 about 2mm long

Vertagopus arboreus

This little guy on a wild calendula flower

Went back and found it again

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Globular springtail on a fence post. Focus stacked using zerene

Globular springtail series. On a damp water barrel lid with milk top behind.

Focus stacked using zerene

Sorry about the poor quality of these images - very difficult to get clear shots of these tiny springtails.

read more: collembolla.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/neelidae-megalothorax-...

A rather orange globular springtail

Tiny springtails around 1mm body length - Proisotoma minuta - feeding on dew covered fungal mycelium.

Globular springtail grazing on a water barrel

Partially descaled - the scales are easily lost and this species can only be accurately confirmed by the the presence of simple (rather than three-pointed) spines on the dens.

Globular springtail on the greenhouse glass. Focus stacked using zerene

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I was in the most beautiful gardens this afternoon, jaw-droppingly pretty. I was there for three hours and all I did was head for the first patch of moss on an old paving slab and stay there until the place closed. Cool finds though. These ones looked more like other photos of S. trinotatus than S. bimaculatus so that's my guess. Though to be honest, there's not an awful lot in it. And I think I need a better shot of its arse too to be certain...

I'm going back Tuesday, weather permitting and actually looking at the flowers.

Springtail on dustbin lid X4. Focus stacked using zerene. Dicyrtomina saundersi

Globular springtail on a camelia leaf. I always wonder how these tiny things get 4 or 5 feet up in a bush

Thanks Frans for the ID. OK- what I thought was the first instar of S. nr. bifidus has grown a bit bigger and done this. Still red eye patches but the pattern is turning quite distinctive. They look almost identical to those on the Sphaeridia pumilis photos on Frans' collembola site. Any ideas? They definitely seem to be a bit aquatic though. I've seen them on and off over the last week or so and 90% of the time they're zooming about on the water.

Springtail about 3.3mm body length in an interesting pose. Think this is another Orchesella villosa. You can clearly see the spring tail.

This little Springtail was a challenge to photograph. I am not sure how to get better pictures of these little creatures without upgrading my equipment. They are hard to even see without magnification. I am utterly fascinated by them. One of the many creatures it took me fifty years to discover :)

Nothing to this worm riding now where's the spice ?

The springtail is about 1mm long

On Indian Cucumber

I found these little white objects on the underside of a rock in the Wichita Mountains. I think they are eggs, but I don't know what they are from. There were lots of two-pronged bristletails, forcepstails, springtails, centipedes, and bristle millipedes nearby.

Looks like Vertagopus arboreus