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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.
Springtail wandering around on a glass slide - same springtail as www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/3055007547/
Globular springtail, bolvormige springstaart (Dicyrtoma fusca forma signata)
Bottom pictures: grooming; see note by Frans Janssens.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.