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Spotted this springtail whilst I was photographing the raindrops on this brush. Looks a rather dangerous position.
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.
While camping in the Wichita Mountains last weekend, I spent several hours turning over rocks looking for bugs. Under one rock, I found this interesting green fungus. I took several photos, then moved on. When I got back home and looked at the photos on my computer, I noticed that I had unknowingly captured two springtails. I think the big one is Allacma (Trochopilosa) purpurescens. I don't know about the little one, though.
Order: Entomobryomorpha. Superfamily: Entomobryoidea. Family: Entomobryidae. Subfamily: Orchesellinae. Species: Orchesella hexfasciata (F. L. Harvey, 1895). (Walpole, NH)
Globular springtails sailing on a water surface. I rescued these from a much larger water barrel using a purple plastic milk top. After photographing them I poured the water off through a pond filter thus freeing the springtails.
MPE-65/5Dmk2. Think I need a darker coloured top to get a decent reflection
Dicyrtomina ornata. There were lots of springtails on the now half rotten fence/handrail near the local nature reserve today, and mostly the globular ones stayed still. This one was visibly grazing on the algae. Much darker and wrinklier than the others.
Canon EOS 5D mark III, Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro, Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT (handheld, Live View manual focus).
2x(65mm, f/6.3, 1/200, ISO 640) (~5x magnification, HeliconFocus).
Half term project for the six year old: choose an animal and learn about it. I honestly didn't influence her choice at all, she saw a picture of a springtail and was sold. (Of course I did choose most of the relevant books that are in the house.)
Anyway, after some drawing, writing and book making, we headed into the garden to look through a pile of stones and see what was there. We found this one after three stones.
I think this is Dicyrtomina saundersi because of the multi-barred cross on the abdomen.
I realized when I was looking through the shots of this springtail there is some clear creature to the right of the pink fungus. Just have to love looking closely at slimes :)
Juvenile globular springtail on the side of a water barrel lid taken at 5:1 FF. Focus stacked using zerene
From conifer (Cedar) litter. Specimen has a habit of curling its intact antenna in the manner of Pogonognathellus longicornis.
Update: A juvenile descaled Pogonognathellus longicornis.
This springtail was still floating around in a bowl of water from the other day so I carefully rescued it on a leaf. see www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/3126814629/
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.
So much variability… I’m attempting once more to culture them. Hopefully this can eventually lead to some cool discoveries! I only find Isotomurus bimus with this appearance along the shores of the Vermillion River and the streams that flow into it. Not even in the vernal pools a couple hundred feet from the river…