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springtail animation X4. Sminthurides aquaticus
See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/51851373331/sizes/o/ for animation
Not sure on ID
Found under one of our Orchids, when watering i noticed the movement so poured the water back into the jug, they happily were jumping around on the surface of the water so i had plenty of time to set a camera up,
can you count them?
the largest ones could be 1 millimetre in length
This one is from Franz Josef, on the South Island of New Zealand. It looks like I. unifasciatus, though I've only found this one in relatively undisturbed bush, so maybe it's a NZ lookalike.
This is a ten photo stack, taken in between the rainstorms that plague this area- one of the highest in NZ at five metres and up of rainfall a year.
I recently posted some springtail images from our Staffordshire garden. Frans Janssens (of collembola.org) was interested in the dark Sminthurinus forms, particularly "eyebrow" markings. I've been looking for these in the garden and concentrating on getting the eyebrow in focus for him. Here's a selection. I'm looking for more!
These have all be cropped by a similar amount.
The weather was so appalling today there was no scope for getting out with the camera so I brought the outside, inside. This is a springtail (Collembola) - Dicyrtomina ornata. It is a globular springtail about 2mm long, found on a piece of dead wood. They use their abdominal, tail-like appendage, the furcula, that is folded beneath the body for jumping when the it is threatened. It is held under tension by a small structure called the retinaculum (or tenaculum) and when released, snaps against the substrate, flinging the springtail into the air. All of this takes place in as little as 18 milliseconds. For their size they can jump incredible distances with 30cm being possible; scaled to a human that is equivalent to us jumping 270m!
Another globular springtail under a fallen Beech leaf in our garden.
I'm assuming that this is one of the colour forms of Sminthurinus aureus. I rarely see the "regular" golden form in our Staffordshire garden; usually the much darker atratus and ochropus forms. This is somewhere in-between.
When you see this springtail, the yellow color is the first thing you notice and makes him different from the Dicyrtominae nearby. Also a very good jumper !
In august, I found some Allacma fusca in the park and after photoshoot, I let them free in the garden. This one I found now in the garden. Is this a juvenil ?
A globular springtail. Taken in Durham Botanic Gardens, UK. The eyes are kind of like little blackberries!
A raft of springtails on a little puddle on my compost bin lid. Pinkish ones- Ceratophysella bengtssoni. Smaller pale ones- Proisotoma minuta. I did rescue them after :)
A juvenile instar of ~0.5 mm. Definite signs of the pigmentation pattern beginning to develop here.
[Part of a garden survey of the "novel" springtail Katiannidae Genus nov.1 sp. nov. that I'm doing for FransJanssens@www.collembola.org to establish the size and differences between the various instars.
Canon MP-E65mm Macro (at 5x) + 1.4x tele-extender + 25mm extension tube + diffused MT24-EX Twinlite flash. Heavily cropped.]
I have not been seeing many dark-form Sminthurinus springtails in the garden recently. The areas where I generally photograph them is particularly wet at the moment, so I decided to look at another garden spot which is at the top of the slope and a little "dryer". I've not really looked there properly before.
Anyway; interesting findings. There were reasonable numbers there, but ALL looked somewhat different from the dark forms that I generally see (with a very-dark, shiny cuticle to the head and abdomen). These were paler and less shiny, with a somewhat mottled black/brown or black/green cuticle. I didn't see any of the very-dark/shiny individuals. Also didn't see any gold/yellow forms (which rarely appear anywhere in the garden).
[All cropped similarly.]
A single shot taken with my MP-E 65mm lens, at about 2x magnification (with some re-directed on-camera flash---still to sort out something more permanent). I haven't quite got the dof or sharpness I'd want. I need some more practice, and to learn about stacking.
This was another shot taken on top of my compost bin, which is turning out to be a great place to find various bugs.
Around 0.8mm - 0.9mm long, these springtails have appeared from nowhere on the lumps of suet that I feed to the the rest of my menagerie. I assume that they are Sminthurinus domesticus, a species which survives only in indoor locations in this part of the world.
Two springtails on a fence rail. I was trying to do a focus stack of the two springtails but the smaller one insisted on walking around so I merged some shots of it
Some other globular springtails from my trip to Weston Park this morning. Top right looks like Sphaeridia pumilis. All others are Sminthurinus species. Top left looks a bit like the one I posted previously but with less dark pigmentation patches. Bottom left looks like it may be Sminthurinus reticulatus and bottom right Sminthurinus aureus forma ochropus.
Dicyrtomina saundersi at the left was a passerby. The Sminthurinus sp. was looking for a place to lay an egg...
twee vliegen (springstaartjes) in een klap. Two birds (springtails) with one stone.
Isotomurus maculatus is new for me.
The green one is I think an Isotoma viridis.
They are on the Dutch forum of Waarneming: forum.waarneming.nl/smf/index.php?topic=417187.0