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Springtail portrait
The fluorescence of the "skin" works as backlight for the scales, thus their structure is emphasized.
Mitutoyo 20 NA 0.42, tube lense: ITL200 (Nikon)
Illumination: backlight and UV (365nm)
Not a great picture, but it has rained so much that the springtails have been flushed out the soil! Not a creature I usually get to see, they are so small I usually don't stop to investigate them
We've had our first good rain for ages and ages, and the springtails are out en masse in the water bowls and droplets. There are a couple of species in here, seen best in the middle image.
A globular springtail in our Staffordshire garden this morning. It has the appearance of one of the dark forms of Sminthurinus aureus, but was MUCH larger than any of the "golden" forms that I've ever seen.
left : Bourletiella hortensis, almost gone now for this year...
right : Entomobrya multifasciata, the whole year to find in my garden...
This one is Dicyrtomina saundersi it seems. Had other shots but a friend needed this shot of it's backside for a positive ID. On our present trajectory, these are the kinds of creatures that will inherit a wrecked but probably repairable planet from us.
About this time in 2017, I visited an orchard in a walled-garden at a local stately home. I found an unusual Sminthurinus springtail there. It's possible that it's a species new to science and it has been given the designation "Sminthurinus sp.5 Janssens & Phillips 2017".
Today I visited the same site to see if I could find it again. The ground was rather dry and I struggled to find any leaves with springtails underneath. I then found a shaded area that yielded the specimens (1-5) above. Number 6 is an example of sp.5 from last year. Note the lateral and rear pigment patches and the patch with a horizontal line on abd.5. It looks like none of the five samples I found today are the same, although they are all Sminthurinus species. I'll be going back!
I haven't "got my eye in" yet this year, but assume that 1-5 are all forms of Sminthurinus aureus.
Composite, not to scale. Clockwise from top:
Pogonognathellus longicornis, Dicyrtomina minuta, Orchesella cincta.
This piece of Cordyline leaf was frozen to the lawn in our garden this morning, but the springtail seemed happy. I understand that they produce glycerols that act as a natural anti-freeze.
This is a composite of two images, one for the "overall" appearance and one to show the sub-anal appendage (SAA). The presence of this indicates a female.
This is a shot from my garden of a whole bunch of springtails (Collembola) on the surface of the water in a plant pot. They were being moved round by the wind were clambering onto this small piece of wood and on each other.
Can name some but not all of them
This one kept me quite an afternoon busy . There were 2 specimen between layers tree bark, but deep, so that my light dit not reach them. Occasionally they came closer to the edge and I had to take my chance. Also he has a short right antenna !
3 pictures merged for the sharpness in photoshop cs6.
Sminthurides aquaticus forma levanderi - The male springtail, the smaller of the pair, grasps the female with specialized antennae. They may stay connected like this for hours while the female periodically lifts the male into the air.
I think these are Dicyrtomina saundersi but not 100%, they are about 1mm in length, this i think is a female or juvenile
Lifted up a rotten piece of wood and found at least 4 species under there! The globular ones (top left) mostly pinged off but the others barely moved! Not good shots as they're beyond my camera's abilities really, but thought I'd upload a montage anyway!
Upton Magna - Shropshire
Thanks to Frans for naming them! There's actually 5 species!
Top left = Dicyrtomina ornata + Dicyrtomina saundersi
Top right = Neanura muscorum, a springless springtail
Bottom left = Isotoma viridis
Bottom right = Pogonognathellus flavescens