Hopefully these IDs are sounder than my previous efforts...

Rear view of the same individual as in the next picture, showing the distinctive pattern on the abdomen.

Collembola sp. Stenacidia violacea

(+Sminthurinus elegans at minute 0.50)

After the failed? mating ritual the male is now eating the left over? from the spermatophore. You can see it shortly in the video on the ground between it's legs (minute 0.12)

Part 1 flic.kr/p/2n1JgyN

Part 2 flic.kr/p/2n1KSP1

Globular springtail on a damp greenhouse strut

I posted an image of a tiny (~0.7mm) golden springtail a couple of days ago. I was quite excited, because I thought it was a species I hadn't seen before. The "stippled" pigmentation pattern is certainly new to me in all the "small golden springtails" that I've photographed.

Frans has had a look at another image, and initially thought that it could be a juvenile Sminthurinus aureus. I have gone back the some of the other images I took though, and produced some seriously cropped versions for further consideration!

[Update: Frans Janssens and Eddie Nurcombe think this could be a Bourletiella or Deuterosminthurus species, possibly a juvenile Bourletiella arvalis or Deuterosminthurus pallipes.

Springtail from the allotment.

The real size is 1.1 mm, magnification is 6.72

Springtails X4

AJC Springtails: Isotomurus Identification Guide

collembolla.blogspot.com/2018/04/isotomurus-identificatio...

Pi Pie Day and the Slug Queen Gala at the University of Oregon

These are photos of my untamed yard. This is my path to the wetlands lol. I need to clear it again if i want to get through there!

Taken in Battle Ground, Clark Co., WA, USA

Juvenile?

Beaten from Ivy.

Springtail on grass

Life on the millimeter scale...

Globular springtail X4. Focus stacked using zerene

Springtail on clay pot - Xenylla maritima about 1.2mm body length

I do like these big, round, shiny, knobbly, hairy springtails. When I say 'big' this one was 2.9mm long, which is pretty large for a springtail. I found it on the trunk of a birch tree during our moth night at The Ercall.

Second Dicyrtomina sp. globular springtail I've seen this season. Focus stacked using zerene

Pete Boardman, who is organising the Shropshire Springtail Atlas, calls this the finger-post springtail as this is where he usually finds them. Sure enough, that's where I found these, my first sightings of this species. They are so round & shiny that I thought they were some sort of giant mite at first. Great patterning & textures when looked at up close.

Found on a finger-post in woods near Ropewalk Meadow, Coalbrookdale.

Dark Form

Springtails on a clay pot

These globular springtails loved wandering around the gills of this white mushroom.

When I took this I thought this female Dicyrtomina saundersi was just preparing to jump and deciding against it, but having revisited this image it's possible that the small 'spike' to the left is a spermatophore, and the raising of her front legs (just before this shot) was part of her collecting the package. Can anyone confirm please?

Update: Frans ID suggests a male, so potentially an old spermatophore being consumed for it's protein.

Looks much better on black

I am guessing that it's Onychiuridae after seeing Jean's recent post. Unlike the gathering in her pic, this one seemed solitary (?).

Update (thanks to Frans - see comments below):

This springtail's features compare closely with Protaphorura armata.

Globular springtail with dewdrop

Damp springtail on fence rail. Focus stacked using zerene

A big springtail - Pogonognathellus flavescens. Focus stacked using zerene. About 4.4mm body length

I tried to key this ~1.5mm springtail out without success. I got as far as Entomobryomorpha and then got stuck. Help please?

Globular springtail on a sunchair. Just under 2mm body length. Quite a dark coloured one

These globular springtails reside in the garden patio just outside my back door. They hide behind the ivy and under the boulders used as a retaining wall. It seems that there are several species but this one caught my interest with its white collar. In real life, they look like tiny black pinheads with a single, striking white dot on their back. It's as though they were wearing tuxedos.

I use a Canon G11 to which I've adapted a lens that I ripped out of an old Super 8 video camera. Lighting is supplemented with a single LED bicycle lamp that is on continuously. It is aimed just in front of the lens and helps to find the subject. All of this is held together with duct tape of course. What can I say, it works. I use a mini tripod from a Sony video camera that was rejected by its owner. It’s tough as nails and I totally abuse it leaning on it to get the focus and steady the camera. I usually use focus bracketing in manual focus mode to get three quick shutter releases. It does nothing for the focus. The lens combination (camera set at maximum zoom and focused to infinity) has a fixed focusing point so focus is entirely by moving the camera.

The distance across the crops is 3-3.5 mm. I determined this by taking pictures of an architectural scale.

Globular springtail on a water barrel. Turns out this one is a male. Focus stacked using zerene

Globular springtail on a fence. Focus stacked using zerene

PARTY !!

Springtail

Could this be the infamous Lucerne Flea (Sminthurus viridis)? Snug, Tasmania.

Update (thanks Frans - see comments below):

This little springtail does not have the features associated with the Lucerne Flea, namely being usually greener and with strong body macrosetae. It's features are more like those of the smaller Bourletiella arvalis, from the Bourletiellidae family, contained within the Sminthuridoidea superfamily.

Shot with a 1950s Sovjet lens on a M42 helicoid Adapter with a LTM 39 adapting ring screwed in. This concept setup defies the purpose of a modern macro lens imho.

This fellow found a springtail and allowed us to photograph the spider from all angles.

Springtails in the compost heap. Heteromurus nitidus