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Been out this morning first time in a while, and these little springtails where nice and slow because of the frost, I have a video which I can't get to upload to Flickr for some reason, so I have posted it on vimeo here is the link vimeo.com/82513060
I shot the photos with a MP-E65 Fitted with a EF 2X Extender and the MT-24 Twin flash fitted with my custom diffusers,
My first macro shots of the year , springtails at x5 magnification , both single frames Tomocerus minor
I think this may be Bourletiella arvalis...? Edit. Maybe not. This is a bigger crop of a 5:1 photo, just to have a better look. It's at the limit of my set up. The flash isn't srong enough for such fine detail, but it's not bad.
Just for fun tried doing a frontal shot focus stack of one of these springtails- this is a 14 shot stack. Gives a very abnormal looking DOF trail on the substrate but did get most of the bug in focus
Taken when testing My Olympus 40-150 f4-5.6 R kit lens with 3 Kook a tubes and Raynox M-250
This was shot at 150 mm but has been heavily cropped but this set up gets better than 1:1
Unusually this was shot with AF which worked better than I expected.
It's very yellow! And pretty big. A good 1mm, so I'm guessing a big, sturdy adult. This was at the first of the aquatic plant sellers I've been to today, tracking down the origins trail of the ginger, white-striped Sminthurides on my pond. Nothing but these ones there. Next one tomorrow...
Found at the Riverside Road Watercress Beds local nature reserve in St. Albans, Hertfordshire, 24th October 2013.
I'm at a bit of a loss as to which one this is. Other than it looks very, very similar to Eddie's possible S. schotti male. And annoyingly, my flash is on the blink so all these shots drastically under-exposed, hence the terrible quality.
I found this springtail while camping in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in early April. It was about 2.5mm long, with two dark brown bands bordered by white stripes on its abdomen. Frans thinks this is probably a dark color form of O. celsa.
As springtails recover from the drought, populations currently contain many recently emerged juvenile stages I am struggling to identify with certainty.
I think this is Onychiuridae of some sort.
Possibly Protaphorura armata, thanks Eddie, though as Frans pointed out later, due to missing anal spikes, it's more likely to be Deuteraphorura inermis. Really lovely but it doesn't look like there's any eyes. This was in compost and twigs.
Yesterday while I was taking shots of the sawfly for the stack I posted, I spotted this tiny Springtail. I had the camera set up for stack, flash off and wide open lens. So took a few shots and this was the only one that almost made it! Had to crop heavily and fool around trying to make sense of it. So lots of noise etc. I vey seldom see these here. By the time I had reset the camera the little guy had disappeared, not to be found!
Haven't posted any springtail shots in a while. here's a really tiny one. Found him on a weed in the garden. There were several of them but they were very hard to spot. This one was about .6mm or .7mm.
Pretty sure on this - lots of them under stones. Mighty tricky to avoid overdoing the contrast, these things... this was minimum flash, tiny aperture and very short exposure.
Here is another one from the other day, all from my garden which seems to have plenty of springtails, shot with the flash from under the leaf as well as the top.
This little springtail decided that Earth just wasn't for it, so it fired its little spring as hard as it could and managed to reach escape velocity. However, once there its legs and spring no longer worked and it floated off into oblivion. Of course, it's actually floating on water!
A springtail, most likely Dicyrtomina ornata. Found on a tree stump.
No stacking, no tripod (too low), spray and pray.
As springtails recover from the drought, populations currently contain many recently emerged juvenile stages I am struggling to identify with certainty.
I'm guessing here that this is one of the Entomobrya species, this one was running around on a Birch and I only managed this one shot before it vanished :)
This was in the local woods, but to be honest, they're bloody everywhere at the minute. The adults are huge!
My exploration of Goatschurch Cavern has yielded some pretty nice stuff so far! I found this one and the juvenile below, both times I've been in, both at the rear of the main cave. It's a really beautiful looking place, obviously pitch black at the end...
I mucked up my Arrhopolites photos so I'll go back and re-shoot them. I found at least 25, under rotten wood, in the cave so they're pretty common. A different sort to the other one I've photographed I think. I also saw what I guessed was a Disparrhopolites sp as it had remarkably long antennae, but I wasn't quick enough. Shooting in the muck and dark isn't easy at all and my camera's getting a beating but it's really, really fun!
Haven't posted any springtail shots in a while. here's a really tiny one. Found him on a weed in the garden. There were several of them but they were very hard to spot. This one was about .6mm or .7mm. I moved him onto a compost bin to photograph him and he jumped off the leaf so i used the compost bin as a background.