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Globular springtail on a water barrel lid. Focus stacked using zerene. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/46225849901/ for a 3D version
A tiny springtail on a Camas stamen.
Family: Bourletiellidae
Possibly Bourletiella arvalis
Lekwungen territory
Another from my garden survey today. At ~1.3 mm, this is an adult instar (I seem to remember seeing a few at 1.4 mm last season, but nothing any longer). This has some orange/red pigmentation along the dorsal surface of the abdomen. It was thought at one time, that these "red-backs" were male. Results from last season's survey showed that females have this pigmentation pattern too.
[Part of a garden survey of the "novel" springtail Katiannidae Genus nov.1 sp. nov. that I'm doing with FransJanssens@www.collembola.org initially, to establish the size and differences between the various instars.]
Canon 5D Mk III + MP-E lens (at 5x magnification) + 1.4x tele-extender + 25mm extension tube + YN24EX flash. Two images blended in PSE. Cropped.
December 1, 2017
A bunch of springtails showed up on our deck this morning.
Brewster, Massachusetts
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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.
Springtails on the side of the pond X2 .
Sminthurides aquaticus. Juvenile female practicing lifting a juvenile male on the left.
There are plenty smaller, I'm sure. But this springtail was well under 1 mm so I was happy to be able to see some of the nice pattern on it.
It's a new species (new to me) found early this year in my backyard in Cedar Rapids Iowa.
Id help appreciated.
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
My first attempt at macro photography. This is a tiny (2mm) Collembola, a hard working shredder in the recycling team in compost piles and soil.
Macro photography is a fascinating subject and gives me a wonderful view on the macrofauna of the soil.
For any macrophotographers out there - this is an unstacked image. I was planning to stack but this little guy would not keep still long enough!
I paid another visit to the walled garden at Weston Park this morning. The location has been very rewarding with respect to Sminthurinus springtails. The grass had been cut in the area I usually check, so I ventured into another part. I was not disappointed and found a number of forms including this one.
I'm assuming that it's a form of Sminthurinus aureus but I don't remember seeing one with this pigmentation pattern before. There's always something interesting in the world of the collembola. This individual ~0.8 mm.
[UPDATE: Potentially something interesting; including a possible new species (see Frans' comments below). I do hope I can find some more!]