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1.6 mm long, and from moss-covered scree in a damp wood. I've tried to go through the key with this, and so far failed. Any ideas?
Small globular springtail taken with a 4X microscope lens setup. Hand focus stacked from 3 shots.
Much easier to line up the subject than it is with the MPE-65 as you can look over the much narrower lens end to see where the subject is.
This was a cool little find the other day. A bright orange springtail amongst a forest of nematodes. At least, I'm guessing they're nematodes. Don't know what else. They were everywhere on this patch of moss but I waited for this springtail to wander across before I took any photos.
Courtesy of Frans- "Nematodes often hitchhike on arthropods. They 'wave' in S-like body shapes on top of moss sticking to whatever they hit. Once stuck to a Collembola specimen, they tend to wind up spirally during the transport. This way of transportation of specimens of a species by specimens of another species is called 'phoresis'."
A rather nice white springtail found in my little pitfall trap in oak litter. Trying to pin down the id, but struggling slightly... l.8 mm long.
Springtail, Collembola maybe Dicyrtomina ornata. TQ 40104 68783
The real size is 1.33 mm, magnification is 5.18
This juvenile S. zebraneus caught a springtail (Entomobryomorpha). From my experience so far, springtails are a very common prey item for young jumping spiders.
Had a look today on the patch of white wild flowers, but could not see any springtails. Finally spotted this really small baby!
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.
Am seeing very small young springtails now.
This was taken at 5x mag with a 2.5 converter clipped on the Mp-e