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This i think is Orchesella cincta, one of the largest Springtails I've seen, about 4mm in length, not cute like the Globulars
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.
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 ?
Sminthurides aquaticus forma levanderi - The male springtail, the smaller of the pair, grasps the female with specialized antennae. They may stay connected like this for hours while the female periodically lifts the male into the air.
This was back in the summer. Whilst pursuing an uncooperative fly, only because I was looking through the macro lens, I realised I was being watched. This tiny Springtail was peeping out from the caterpillar silk on the leaf.
Globular springtail on a water barrel lid. Focus stacked using zerene. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/46225849901/ for a 3D version
A globular springtail in our Staffordshire garden this morning. It has the appearance of one of the dark forms of Sminthurinus aureus, but was MUCH larger than any of the "golden" forms that I've ever seen.
My little strawberry plants, I have moved them from the cold to the inside of the house. What's on it? Isotoma anglicana this time ? NO Isotoma viridis !!! (thanks Frans Janssens)
Stack 10 images in zerene Pmax
f/5.6, iso 100, 1/60sec
canon eos 60D, MP-E65mm at 4-5x, macro ringlite MR 14EX,
A globular springtail. Taken in Durham Botanic Gardens, UK. The eyes are kind of like little blackberries!
Dicyrtomina saundersi at the left was a passerby. The Sminthurinus sp. was looking for a place to lay an egg...
When the "springtail season" starts for me (typically when flying insects get fewer in number), I add a 1.4x tele-extender and 25mm of extension tubes to my regular macro setup and start searching. This morning I went back to Weston Park where I photographed the Sminthurus viridis yesterday.
Today I found a few leaves that had some of these little globular springtail species underneath. They are around 0.5mm in length. Looks like a Sminthurinus species but the colouring looks a little unusual. Perhaps one of the "reticulatus" types? Anyway, it's good to be back springtail-searching, but need to remind myself what they all look like!
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!
A tiny springtail on a Camas stamen.
Family: Bourletiellidae
Possibly Bourletiella arvalis
Lekwungen territory
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.
From the Archives, uploaded for Macro Mondays, theme "Arthropod".
Not many people are afraid of springtails I guess, because with their 1-3mm size, living in rotting leaves they live an invisible life.
This shot is a focus stack, composed with Helicon Focus
A very tiny Springtail found under leaf litter, I think it's a Lepidocyrtus curvicollis, approximately 1mm long. They have a pretty iridescent light blue colouring
Taken with Canon MP-E 65MM, 2X converter and defused flash at approximately 8X magnification hand held so not totally sharp