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I think I know what Frans will say, so I'm pre-empting him! I haven't seen one this colour before though. And covered with so much wax.
These were under damp stones by a spring down in one of the valleys in the Algarve in Portugal where I'm staying. They look like Deuteraphorura cebennaria except these ones can definitely jump while D. cebennaria doesn't have a furca.
Maybe I. maculatus? It's a bit bloody hard deciding amongst this lot. They all look so similar! But a stunning looking animal. There was a whole mass of them just at the base of some moss that was creeping over the concrete, so it was fun watching them, just hard getting any decent shots...
The out of focus striped springtail is a baby D. antennalis- unless the ID changes!!
I was NOT trying for this!!! I was taking a picture of the mite BELOW ( =D ) it!!! I managed to focus on a springtail jumping in front of the camera!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I only noticed it when I was looking back at my photos. luckily i didn't say "blurry" and delete it!
I didn't crop it alot so it was obvious that it is jumping! (also it was a very small one so it probably couldnt be cropped much more!) To think... a 14 year old (ME!) is one of the... two or 3? people in the world to catch this on camera... and I just have my Canon S5IS with a Ranox lens atatchment!!! Oh im so exited!!! (sorry if i bragged a little!)
A special thanks to zxgirl for
1. Helping my mom pick out the camera, and
2. Getting me interested into springtails (with her photos of them!!!)
Not the first time I've seen these around here, but the first time I've found them under stones; usually they seem to be on plants.
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
Springtail on a fence my normal coke can diffuser. Taken at 5:1. focus stacked using zerene. Unfortunately it had moved by this time :)
Neanura muscorum (Collembola, Neanuridae) + phoretic curled up nematode. Found under bark of a fallen ash tree (Fraxinus excelsior). Thanks to Frans Janssens @ www.collembola.org for the identification.
Canon EOS 5DII + MP-E65/2.8 handheld, f/8, 1/80sec., ISO 320. Lit with a single diffused flash.
Sports cam with cctv lens fitted (but no IR cut filter at the moment). You can focus quite close with it
April 7, 2017
Well... not really. Though it may look like I have captured this guy in mid-jump, he's actually on the surface of a crystal clear pool. The shadow is about a half inch underneath him at the bottom of a leaf littered dish.
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Shot at 3.7:1 105EX +65mm ext rings+reversed 50mm and slightly cropped.
Interesting design on it's back as it turns around (see sequence)
I don't think this is aureus, based on the sticky-out bit at the tail end. Therefore, what is it? They're crawling all over the leaves of dandelions and teasel in our back yard, and barely make it past 0.5 mm long. The huge majority are yellow; I've only spotted one dark one so far, and that may be a different species (aureus form ochropus, perhaps).
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
Here's a selection from my finds from this morning's globular springtail hunt. Again, all at my local churchyard on the underside of laurel leaves.
1. At nearly 0.6mm, this was the largest. Has the appearance of the Sminthurinus igniceps that I've been finding recently. I'm not sure though about the fusion/non fusion of the fifth abdominal segment with this one. It should be fused dorsally, but doesn't seem to be. (Sorry Frans, if I'm still not understanding this!).
2. Just 0.4mm this individual. Perhaps a juvenile Sminthurinus aureus or with those markings, possibly a Sminthurinus reticulatus.
3. This was the smallest, between 0.3mm and 0.4mm. Not sure about this one.
4. Just over 0.5mm. Possibly a pale form of Sminthurinus igniceps
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
Isotomurus unifasciatus? Midline stripe is not quite unbroken, but close. No pigmentation on sides of abdomen. Subadult? ~1.5mm.