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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 ?
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
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I picked up a new toy today and now have a new found interest in spring tails. This is a single image at the max mag on the 90mm but now doubled by having a 2x tele converter fitted. As my brain learns the new working distance I shall improve and might be able to get some stacks if any ever sit still long enough..
Spring tails are very small and also very interesting. They vary a lot. Some have eyes and some do not.
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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
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.
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!
Top row: Dicyrtomina ornata, Dicyrtomina minuta, Monobella grassei
Bottom row: Entomobrya intermedia, Orchesella cincta, Orchesella villosa
Thanks for the notes Frans.
This i think is Orchesella cincta, one of the largest Springtails I've seen, about 4mm in length, not cute like the Globulars
Dicyrtomina saundersi at the left was a passerby. The Sminthurinus sp. was looking for a place to lay an egg...
The middle one is 1.34mm long or thereabouts. This is taken at the max magnification my set-up can achieve (about 4:1)
Llanymynech Rocks, Shropshire.
Globular springtail walking on water in the bird bath. Have not cleaned the leaves out of it yet. Fun watching these as the slightest breath of wind and they go sailing across the surface
Found yesterday in some mud in the park in Opitter.
Isotomurus pseudopalustris : left up
Desoria trispinata : right up
Sminthurinus aureus juvenile : left down
Isotoma caerulea : right down
Thanks Frans Janssens for ID
Globular springtail on a water barrel lid. Focus stacked using zerene. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/46225849901/ for a 3D version
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!
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.]