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I went out today to my favourite site, looking once again for globular springtails with "moustache" marking on the face. This individual stood out from the others, having an overall darkish colouration. This is a feeding instar though the dark gut contents are affecting the overall hue. The face is noticeably dark too though, and this will not be affected by gut contents.
There are definite pigmented markings on the face, radiating out from a central point. This is the typical moustache form that I've been seeing. The pigmentation is not as dark as I've seen on other individuals though.
Canon 5D3 + MP-E 65mm (at 5x) + 1.4x Extender + 36mm extension tube + MT24-EX Flash. Magnification 8x. Springtail ~0.6mm. Cropped a bit.
These pix are from a month or so ago- I have a whole stack of unused photos, so thought I'd post some up. I didn't post them mainly because they seemed to be descaled so not so interesting, but what the hell!
This was very slow moving, partly I reckon due to the red lump on its side. I saw the same thing on a S. aquaticus a few weeks ago, and found it dead last week.
This is a crop of a x17 photo. At this magnification with the set up I have, I get slight vignetting as well as crazily shallow depth of field, so have to crop a little. This was the only shot I got as M. minimus was only there for a second or so.
This was the first and only time I've found a juvenile D bicinctus and they're really cute. The panoramic crop works well with the springtail babies- thanks Eddie!!
Tiny springtails on a flowerpot. largest about 0.9mm body length. Assume they are a Sminthurinus sp.
Looks a bit cavey to me! I'm having so much fun in the damp and the dark... I can highly recommend the experience...
A selection of "little brown jobs" from the churchyard today. Not ideal conditions (wet and blustery) and quite a bit of glare from the wet leaf surface.
Again, these look like Sminthurinus igniceps. I would guess they are in the size range 0.5mm - 0.7mm. I'm not sure how to work out the magnification factor when using extension tubes. Must research that!
These still seem to be the predominant globular springtail in churchyard leaf-litter. Interesting, because I didn't see any last year. Perhaps I'm just getting better at spotting them. It'll be interesting to see how the species-mix changes as the season progresses.
Canon MP-E 65mm macro (at x5) + 36mm extension tube + Canon 1.4x Extender + MT24-EX Flash. Images heavily cropped and combined in Photoshop. All taken at F5.6.
Springtail on the front garden path found under some fallen leaves. About 5.3mm body length - think this is Orchesella villosa. Focus stacked using zerene stacker
Pikla coastal meadow, Häädemeeste, Estonia.
The same specimen as previous image. Here the legs are visible.
There were so many of these around but they were pretty damn quick on their claws. So these photos are the best ones... But it was nice to find so many juveniles.
The other day I was turning over stuff, chasing globbies when I kept catching this funny moving shape to the side of my focus. And when I looked, it was this chap. Luckily I looked as this is the best detail I've got so far on such a small collembola. You can even see the pigmentation on the legs... It's walking away from the camera, hence the curious pose. This is obviously an extreme crop and a two shot stack, at the limits of my camera's resolution. Best viewed from far away! I've cropped a little too much but I can't be bothered to re-jig the photo... Lazy I am.
AJC Springtails: 16.06.18 - Bradgate Park collembolla.blogspot.com/2018/06/160618-bradgate-park.html
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.