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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.
Think I'd have remembered those eyes if I'd seen them before. I found two of these on the surface of a puddle in my garden today. Dicyrtomina sp.?
AJC Springtails: Antennae - why do they break?
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Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt the postings of our usual jumping spiders for this special capture!
My first springtail. I've shot springtail before but only when they came into the frame when i was shooting something else, like when shooting an ant. :D
This one was 2mm long excl the antennae.
Right, I think this time Frans Janssens may be in agreement!
This golden Sminthurinus springtail has the "classic" reticulate markings on the abdomen, but the markings are just a darker golden/orange version of the underlying "body colour". Frans advises that he prefers that these be referred to as Sminthurinus aureus forma reticulata. Where the reticulate pattern contains significant dark pigmentation (as in my previous Sminthurinus image), they should be referred to as Sminthurinus reticulatus.
another type of Springtail, not as cute as the others, very hard to photograph handheld, its a Vertagopus arboreus, thanks Eddie
A few weeks ago I went on a springtail hunt, and these are some of the springtails I found. I found a bunch of these tiny white springtails under several logs. I thought that these guys were probably Cyphoderus similis, but Frans Janssens identified them as a species of Pseudosinella springtail. He said you can tell because the third segments of the anntennae are the same length and shape as the other segments.
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.
Tiny Globular Springtail - about 0.8mm body length. Taken at 5:1 and cropped. These ones are very difficult to focus on because of their colour and lack of detail
ID: The Red Poduromorph Springtail
Order: Poduromorpha
Family: Neanuridae
Spotted on June 2018 @ Penang, Malaysia.