Springtail stack of 2 photos, at 2.7 Mag 1.5 mm body size from Keston Common

Head+body approx 3-4mm long. Hopefully these IDs are sounder than my previous efforts...

37/100 insects for 2020

Springtail, they love to live on the underside of logs in the garden.

7D + 65mp-e @ 5x + 68mm tubes kenko + mt-24ex sur bracket à flexibles

Fov ~3,5mm

crop from 5x - 3 shots of the same specimen

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Noticed some small bugs on the leaves of a rhododendron bush. Turned out to be springtails. Taken at 3:1 by holding the end of the leaf in my left hand and resting the camera lens on the back of that hand

The tops of the wheelie-bins are covered in springtails - Dicyrtomina saundersi, I think - several hundred of them. Are they carried in rain?

A the first glance, I would have said it was Isotomurus palustris (dorsal line). But I don't see any macrosetae on the last abodminal segments, so I think it is an Isotoma species. Isotoma viridis ? (the color pattern is quite strange for this species...). Nikon D90 + Tamron 90mm macro f:2.8 + 68 mm macro tube + SB900 strobe.

A springtail crawling across. a damp rotted log and liverwort fronds. Taken with a 100 mm macro lens and two extension tubes (31 mm and 21 mm). No flash used , the light is from the sun.

I took this a while ago and was looking over Frans' site and it seemed to fit the photos of D. cf. violacea exactly. However, it could just be a very dark D. ornata too!

Nikon D90 + Tamron 90mm macro f:2.8 + SB 900 strobe

This was almost hunting as I was watching it. It had that cat stalking prey kind of look. Really quite curious. It shows it well in this shot.

Springtail, The real size is 1.67 mm, magnifcation is 3.9 - stack of 2 shots. On a piece of wood on top of a water butt

Springtail

Globular springtail - rescued this one from a dish of water- has a rather odd "cheek" marking. Taken at 5:1 FF

Springtails on a clay pot. Probably Vertagopus arboreus

Entomobrya multifasciata?

Tiny springtail. About 1.5 mm body length - looks like these are made of leather :)

Springtail on clay pot X4. Lepidocyrtus sp.

A clump of springtails heading toward Brownfield Bog, a type of (Entognatha).

Merged shots of the same springtail- Sminthurinus niger I think. About 0.75mm body length

Tomocerus minor.

5 image focus stack.

(Odonata: Caenagrionidae)

Springtail on water barrel lid.

Another springtail rear-end shot

That'll be a no then! Female kicking the male away and rejecting his advances.

Globular Springtail (Symphypleona)

Size: ~1.5 - 2.0 mm

November 06, 2015

Mingo Creek County Park

Washington County, Pennsylvania

Found this brute hanging out on the stem of a overturned mushroom. Probably the largest globular springtail I've ever seen.

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Springtails - Found on a damp, fungus filled bridge over a stream at Snipedales. Quite a while since I have photographed these tiny creatures.

Springtail

Tiny globular springtail about 0.4mm body length

Taken in Battle Ground, Clark Co., WA, USA

Thanks to Frans Janssens for ID.

Springtails are primitive insects that live in moist areas such as leaf litter and soil, where they feed on algae, fungi and decayed vegetation. Some springtails can become pests indoors when the appear in large numbers, ofter associated with a moisture problem such as a water leak. These springtails were observed outdoors on a gas tank, likely feeding on algae. They are a type of "globular springtail," n the family Sminthuridae. Springtails get their name from the behavior of jumping when disturbed.

For more information about occasional invaders: nysipm.cornell.edu/whats-bugging-you/occasional-infesters

For more information about springtails: idl.entomology.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/Springtails...

I mean, really! How beautiful can one tiny little thing be? There were many different ones, I suspect some of the scales had rubbed off on some as they were much blacker with less iridescence.

On a dead log near Ponkapoag pond, MA

Either Podura aquatica or a Hypogatrura, maybe H. nivicola?

Globular springtail front view (cropped)

shot in the dark 5dsr mpe-65 single frame