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An odd little creature I found when I brought out the macro lens after having lunch on the west coast of Maria Island. It would have hardly been longer than a small ant and was a rather brilliant blue! Here he is seen clambering over the seaweed.
Any ideas as to what it is??
After not seeing these for a while locally, there are now quite a few once more. I suspect that the moisture levels in the leaf litter is "just right" again.
I would have confidently called this Sminthurinus reticulatus in the past, but Frans Janssens advises me that unless the reticulate pattern contains significant levels of black pigmentation, they should be called Sminthurinus aureus forma reticulata. Whatever the name, it's lovely to see them again! This one ~0.7mm.
Canon 1D3 + MP-E 65mm Macro (at x5) + MT24-EX Flash (-2/3 FEC). Cropped a bit.
[Update: Frans reckons that the pattern on this is sufficiently dark for this to be Sminthurinus reticulatus. Thanks Frans.]
In P. longicornis, the empodium is about 1.2 times as long as the claw due a thin filament on its tip (P. flavescens has no filament on any empodium).
This was me experimenting with my new, hours old MP E lens so this is with extenders at 10:1! So it is possible! Handheld with a 2 photo stack.
The last one today I promise! Sorry, I really am obsessed at the moment. I do apologise... I have another day off tomorrow, so if it's not raining there will be more of the same. Be warned!
Kissing Collembola: 46.18.32.69/~doehetzelf/images/maddison/serrat01.jpg
Life in the Undergrowth video segment on Springtails: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwOL-MHcQ1w
It was a good 8mm if not bigger, I tells you... seriously though, are they usually this big? It was proper enormous. Like woah. Like, you know, OMG. All that.
A few days ago, I went to the forest with a friend of mine to photograph springtails. Springtails are very tiny and busy creatures. I spent 2,5 hours with them and ended up with one acceptable photograph.
I hope you like it,
Maxim.
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!
A tiny Cotton Springtail, Entomobrya unostrigata, crawling by the front entrance of the Fountain Creek Nature Center at night. Fountain, Colorado, May 17, 2019.
I found many of these at a garden centre in Street, Somerset. Another stripy one. The only one I could find that looked at all similar was an Isotomurus bimus juvenile, but that's a US species. The marks/dots on the back do look very familiar. I seem to have seem them on a photo before somewhere... I'm aware it'll be something glaringly obvious but I'm feeling a bit stupid.
Update from Frans- it looks like this is a new species for the uk! An import from either Japan or north Pakistan... Which is very cool...
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!!
Couldn't resist taking a shot of this globular springtail with a single dewdrop on it's wax bristles. The dewdrop is about 0.2mm diameter.
Springtails Grazing on our Deck.
November 23, 2010
Brewster Massachusetts - Cape Cod
Canon 7D
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Springtails (top right: Pseudosinella sp., all other pictures: Heteromurus major)
Upper half pictures taken with Raynox MSN-505, lower half pictures taken with Raynox DCR-250.
Tiny springtails on a flowerpot. largest about 0.9mm body length. Assume they are a Sminthurinus sp.
This shot have been consigned to the "delete bin". I made the basic error of leaving my Flash Exposure Compensation set at +1.7 EV, after photographing a springtail on a white background. Although heavily over-exposed, the situation was saved by having shot in RAW. I was able to recover the image really well, with only the "eyebrows" being totally burned out.
I wanted to save it because I liked the colour/pigmentation on this one; really deep golden/orange with virtually black lateral markings. I'm assuming it's a mature individual. It was ~0.8mm.
Canon 1D3 + MP-E 65mm Macro (at x5) + MT24-EX Flash.
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.