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Globular springtail on a dustbin lid. 4 shot focus stack using zerene. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/8286055659/ for a 3-D version
I was wondering what the yellow specks were on my pond... I've seen four varieties of globular s. so far. Not too shabby for an eight foot pond. This is a portrait crop of a landscape photo...
Found under a Laceleaf Maple Bush on a pot. I am out of practice and I am not able to tell if this is a new one for me. I am hoping Frans or others can help me ID it so I can know if I should take better photos.
Lepidocyrtus violaceus - strong blue pigment on the head, thorax, abdomen and legs. The second thoracic segment is not prominent. This species has scales on the legs and on the first (ant1) and second (ant2) segments of the antennae, but NOT on ant3 and ant4.
Opened the little door at the bottom of the composter today and my first thought was that someone had spilled some sort of powder all over. On closer examination the powder was moving, and on even closer inspection it was jumping! Gardening briefly abandoned while I got my camera. Couldn't get in to them as they were slightly inside the bin, but this is just a very small area, there were literally thousands! Most were less than 0.5mm. Uploaded this quickly, will have a look at the other photos tomorrow to see if there are any better ones.
Found on a mushroom in my garden - Nikon D90 + Tamron 90mm macro f:2.8+ 100mm macro tubes + SB900 strobe.
Springtails on my daisies last week.
The yellow of the daisy is about 1cm across.
Collembola: Entomobryinae atrocincta
Playing with my 10X microscope objective as a lens - a crude focus stack of a springtail at 10X. This one seemed to have landed on it's side and then got stuck to the ice.
Not sure about this one....think there were 2 males about 0.5mm on the soil in my garden. May have seen a larger(~1mm) yellow female in the same area too but I only saw that with my naked eye and couldn't find it through the lens.
Or I could be miles off and those chunky antennae are not for grasping females with!
I found a bunch of these Onychiuridae springtails underneath a rotting log. They were in the middle of a patch of rusty-orange fungus(?) and seemed to be feeding on it. I think that the white spots on the top one are caused by the reflections of the flash, but I'm not sure.
0.8mm springtail on Trifolia repens
single exposure. the broken ring is a reflection of the camera flash.
I was very happy to see these little Springtails (also called Snow Fleas) crawling all over the tree trunk. They are very cute and fun to watch as they trundle around. I read there may be as many as a million of these little cuties in an acre. Not easily noticed unless you look for things as tiny as grains of pepper :)
A saved victim from the pond today, a very small springtail but the biggest of it's kind i believe. Isn't it cute!!!
Globular springtail. Focus stacked using zerene. Thought this one m,ight break my size record of 2.38 mm but it was only 2.35mm long.
See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/33730967832/in/dateposted/ for a 3D version