I found this springtail under some leaves. I'd seen similar ones before but not with such bright colouration and i hadn't noticed the curled antennae before

Larger springtail on wooden fence beam. Entomobrya intermedia

With irridescent bits on the legs and face 8-)

Globular springtail on fence rail

Found under a Laceleaf Maple Bush on a pot. I am out of practice and I am not able to tell if this is a new one for me. I am hoping Frans or others can help me ID it so I can know if I should take better photos.

A beautiful springtail. The colours are just fantastic.

Earless agamid lizard. Aphaniotis fusca. Male. You can see a springtail on the lizard in some of the frames here. Check out more tropical reptiles and amphibians here: orionmystery.blogspot.com/2012/12/tropical-reptiles-amphi...

Globular Springtail taken at 5:1 with an MPE-65 on my 40D body

Springtail wandering around on a glass slide - same springtail as www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/3055007547/

springtail found in leaf litter, mainly sycamore

Springtails on clay pot

Entomobrya intermedia

A severe crop of a shot taken at 5:1. Protaphorura aurantiaca I think.

Hypogastrura, Hypogastruridae. Denison University Biological Reserve, Granville, Licking County, Ohio.

Not one I recognise. About 1.5mm, single specimen found on water in the garden.

This looks like a little like a springtail...just bigger.

found at a third Cheshire site 14/3/2009 - must be everywhere I suspect. almost uncropped - 12x life size (at least) and handheld! I love my Fuji/raynox combo.

I was lucky to find three different varieties of globular springtail on the same leaf. All were in the range 0.5mm - 0.6mm. I think that they are all in the genus Sminthurinus. The genus contains recognised species, some colour variants of species and others that seem to fall somewhere in between! A bit of a minefield for the uninitiated (like me).

The experts will help me, but these could be:

1. A colour variant of Sminthurinus aureus or perhaps Sminthurinus igniceps (dark body, pale head)?;

2. Sminthurinus elegans f. ornata - lateral longitudinal pigment bands, but with no mid-dorsal stripe;

3. A dark form of Sminthurinus aureus (the wide, green dorsal band is the gut contents), but not as darkly marked as the Sminthurinus reticulatus form.

All with Canon MP-E 65mm (at x5) + 1.4x Extender + MT24-EX Flash. Combined and cropped.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Springtail stack of 4 photos, at 2.7 Mag 1.5 mm body size from Keston Common

Springtail - Orchesella villosa. Six images stacked with Zerene Stacker. It moved off after the 6th shot sadly!

On the underside of a piece of fallen Wellingtonia bark. They seem to like this.

Thanks to Frans Janssens@www.collembola.org for the ID.

Iridescence is the order of the day. Seriously, I've seen five different varieties and all as shiny as fish. Really amazing actually. It's humbling to realise how beautiful the macro world truly is.

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

Thanks to Frans Janssens for ID.

Any help with these much appreciated

Last summer, my friend helped me put on a new deck... well actually, he did 99 percent of it and I fetched beer. It came out beautiful, and we love it. So too does a host of tiny flea-looking creatures that turned out to be called "Springtails." Apparently, they're harmless. They come out as soon as the temperature gets above 40 or so, and especially when condensation starts forming on the "azek" boards.

On this day, it looks like a raccoon or skunk had been up on the deck. The springtails were massed around the footprints and near crumbs of whatever the critter had been munching on the deck.

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

Thanks to Frans Janssens for ID.

Dicyrtomina cf. ornata

More springtails in the compost heap- taken at 4:1

Nikon D90 + Tamron 90mm macro f:2.8 + SB900 strobe.

This springtail was walking on the edge of a glass microscope slide I have outside

Globular springtail

Superdomain: Neomura

Domain: Eukaryota

(unranked): Opisthokonta

(unranked) Holozoa

(unranked) Filozoa

Kingdom: Animalia

Subkingdom: Eumetazoa

Clade: Bilateria

Clade: Nephrozoa

(unranked): Protostomia

Superphylum: Ecdysozoa

(unranked): Panarthropoda

(unranked): Tactopoda

Phylum: Arthropoda

Subphylum: Hexapoda

Class: Entognatha

Subclass: Collembola

Order: Entomobryomorpha

Superfamily: Isotomoidea

Family: Isotomidae

Subfamily: Isotominae

Genus: Isotoma

Species: I. viridis

Nikon D90 + Tamron 90mm macro f:2.8 - SB900 Strobe

These Springtails seem to like playing "king of the Castle"

Yesterday while looking at some Allocasuarina and trying to find some flowers and fruit, I noticed some little black bugs on my hands. I wondered what they were and quickly realised they were springing off my hands. They were a springtail I hadn't seen before. I managed to get a couple of photos with my 100mm lens but couldn't get my Raynox filter out of my pocket as I was holding springtails on one hand and the camera in the other. :(

Hopefully when we go back they will still be there and I will be ready for them.

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

Thanks to Frans Janssens for ID.