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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.
Mollusc egg cluster with springtails. Not certain if these are small snail or slug eggs. Cluster about 4mm diameter on the underside of the compost bin lid. Focus stacked using zerene
Was out looking in leaf-litter for globular springtails this morning. Found a few Sminthurinus species and then this tiny individual (about 0.3mm). I assume it's a juvenile but not sure of genus/species. About the smallest globular springtail I've photographed. Need to start practising with extension tubes too!
Canon MP-E 65mm (at x5) + 1.4x Extender + MT24-EX Flash. Cropped a bit.
In the recent snowy weather I thought I'd see how the Globular Springtails were faring and turned over a few rocks in my garden. To my surprise there were still lots of springtails attached to the underside of the rocks, many partially set into the ice. As the light reached them they slowly started to move and these two shots are of a couple of individuals wandering around the ice.
Phenology is the study of the periodic (seasonal) cycles of living organisms. I used the NatureSpot dataset to 31.12.18 to look at the phenology of springtails in Leicestershire & Rutland. The criterion for inclusion was a minimum of at least 10 verified records. I don't think there are too many surprises here, but I am pleased to see that Orchesella cincta seems to hold up as a good benchmark species, pretty accurately reflecting the overall variation.
See: www.flickr.com/groups/334033@N24/discuss/72157676285127588/
Found and photographed on Velvet-top Fungus Phaeolus schweinitzii.
Taken in Battle Ground, Clark Co., WA, USA
Thanks to Frans Janssens for ID.
Some small black flies attracted my attention by having a tussle on the track in front of us. I stopped to see what flies they were, but they disappeared. I noticed these tiny Springtails jumping and was very lucky that this little one stayed on a stick for a while.