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This is the first Symphypleona photo I’ve gotten in which the body segments are so clearly visible! I’ve taken my $23 clip lens to the limit!
Have to admit I didn't notice the tiny springtail when I was trying to shoot the larger one. Larger sprintail about 3mm body length
Noticed one of these bouncing over the surface of a large pond. They seem to be able to cover a fair distance with long series of jumps over the surface of the water.....looking at the pics when I got home it seems they have an adapted furca that looks like it acts as a paddle to create greater resistance against the water when jumping forward. Clever beastie :-)
Following the 1st one I saw lead me to a small rock with a dozen or so on them. They were also on other rocks poking through the surface near the waters edge.....there were loads of them!
So much variability… I’m attempting once more to culture them. Hopefully this can eventually lead to some cool discoveries! I only find Isotomurus bimus with this appearance along the shores of the Vermillion River and the streams that flow into it. Not even in the vernal pools a couple hundred feet from the river…
These cute little gummy bears of my yard litter are busy investigating after their home was flipped over. Taken at approximately 4x. ID's welcome.
I think this springtail is in the Genus Folsomides, probably F. parvulus? This one was probably less than 1mm. I can't tell for certain from these photos, but it seems like the 4th-6th abdominal segments are not fused and that the abdomen slopes downwards.
Not sure on this one... perhaps just a dark Dicyrtomina ornata, but the shape looks wrong, and the legs too pale. They normally end up being that, though...
Found a few, all tiddlers at ~0.8 mm long, all on an ornamental gorse-like shrub.
29/12/2013
Springtail on the windowsill. Not certain but looks like it has lost a rear leg (no I didn't touch it)
A very pale looking globular springtail- assume it is Dicyrtomina sp.
see www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/1797126115/ for a 3-D version
this springtail "Lepidocyrtus curvicollis" is 2 to 3mm. found it on a stone wall not far from where i live.
I am unable to determine this Entomobryidae. It looks like an Orchesella, but lacks the distinct color patterns of Orchesella villosa or Orcheslla quinquefasciata.
Poor shot, overexposed - but my first ever springtail photo! Found in leaf litter.
Springtails have the widest distribution of any hexapod group, occuring throughout the world, including Antarctica. They are probably the most abundant hexapods on Earth, with up to 250,000,000 individuals per square acre. They are found in soil, leaf litter, logs, dung, cave, shorelines, etc. There are about 6000 known species.
Source: tolweb.org
So, I found this on my pond the other day and thought it looked quite cool. I found a whole stack more today in the moss near the pond but couldn't get any decent photos. I can say though that they're about a third of the size of S. aureus that was there too and they have a red eye patch and I know nothing else.
Edit. There seems to be a whole range of colours across S. pumilis I've been watching, from this yellowy pink to full on orangey red with distinct markings. All have the strongly red eye patch and a kind of see-through shiny glow under a lens.
Here's link to my other photos of S. pumilis. www.flickr.com/photos/89396233@N00/7179700929/
It looks very like one we decided was D. antennatus: www.flickr.com/photos/77849983@N00/4489272406/ but with somewhat less striking banding, and more hair. Could be D. tigrina, though?
About 2 mm, from dense moss under gorse and nettles.
Thanks to Frans for the the likely ID.
Springtails come in many different shapes and sizes. They are all associated with moist environments, and when they are discovered indoors, it is always the result of a problem with standing water, a leak or rotting wood. For some detailed information about Collembola, see: www.collembola.org/