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.

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/

Fundort: Deutschland - Oerlinghausen - 11.08.2014

Buchenwald auf Totholz

springtail found in leaf litter, mainly sycamore

Springtails on clay pot

Entomobrya intermedia

Globular springtail, bolvormige springstaart (Dicyrtoma fusca forma signata)

Bottom pictures: grooming; see note by Frans Janssens.

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.

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Collembola: Sminthuridae: Neosminthurus clavatus

Globular springtail feeding on a greenhouse strut

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.

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

Thanks to Frans Janssens for ID.

Any help with these much appreciated

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.

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

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.

Springtail/Collembola. Recent picture taken. I.D. by Frans Janssens.

Approximate size-3mm.

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.

Nikon D90 + Tamron 90mm macro f:2.8 + 68mm macro tubes - SB 900 strobe