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Springtails on the side of the pond X2 .
Sminthurides aquaticus. Juvenile female practicing lifting a juvenile male on the left.
A tiny springtail on a Camas stamen.
Family: Bourletiellidae
Possibly Bourletiella arvalis
Lekwungen territory
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
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.
December 1, 2017
A bunch of springtails showed up on our deck this morning.
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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Another tiny (less than 1mm long) rambler that I found on my compost bin yesterday. It's similar to that in my previous upload (Katiannidae springtail) but a brighter, and more orange, colour. I don't know whether it's exactly the same as the other one, or slightly different.
This is a single image at about 3x magnification using my MP-E 65mm lens, with some `redirected' on-camera flash (I still need to work on that!). The image was still quite underexposed (so needed some twiddling), was taken at high ISO, and is a large crop, so it's a bit noisy. Ideally, I need to sort my flash set-up out, and it'd be great to stack these, but they always seem to be constantly on the move.
Globular springtail on a fence rail. Focus stacked using zerene. About 1.7mm body length. Dicyrtomina saundersi
Spotted this juvenile Dicyrtomina saundersii moving over a piece of terracota that had a spider in residence.
The poor thing got caught in a few strands of silk on the edge. It struggled for a few seconds to no avail, it even everted it's vesicles in an attempt to free itself.
As I'm a softy, I gave it the gentlest of nudges and it leapt free! Unfortunately it's leap took it into an even worse predicament, and was left dangling by it's legs and furcula from another part of the web.
Fortunately this time it was able to free itself quickly and escaped to freedom!!
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.]
Nikon D7100
lomo 3.7x 0.11 objective
55mm Extension Tube
f/4.5 - 1/250 - ISO 100
Dual Viltrox jy-610n II Speedlights 1/32 1/32 Yongnuo YN-24EX Macro Twin Flash 1/32
Homemade Diffuser
6 Images stacked (Handheld)
Field / Live specimen
very heavy rain today, did manage to time my walk while the sun was shining. Not long after getting home, it poured with rain.
Not a great deal about, saw some more fungi and spotted a couple of Globular Springtails, Dicyrtomina saundersi, cute little bugs about 2.5mm in size
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.