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From a Collembola hunt in RSPB Swell wood with Steve. Love these tiny hexapods.
The best part of 2mm long
I think... But might be Hypogastrura manubrialis.
I think he's been a bit squished :@(
About 1-1.5mm long
Handheld focus stack of 4 images shot with OM1 and the Olympus 60mm macro lens on a 16mm extension tube and the MC-20 teleconverter. Goodox flash and AK diffuser,
In a corner in Opitter park in high grasses and Geranium robertianum I find this time of the year Heterosminthurus bilineatus and Deuterosminthurus bicinctus. For a second they where together in view...
left : Entomobrya nicoleti
right : Parisotoma notabilis
A very brief encounter, the Entomobrya nicoleti was very quickly gone again...
It is cropped a bit to show some of the detail. Otherwise, even at 2x magnification, it was too small to show.
A Sminthurides aquaticus walking across a piece of wet winecork.
A photo without flash merged with a photo with use of flash and f/4 for the springtail details.
This tiny spider (<2 mm) was spotted by Lucy while we were looking for springtails and other stuff. Based on the palps it must be a male, but that's all I know. Hoping to get an ID at some point!
Edit: ID'd by Hubert Szymanski on the British Spider ID Facebook group - Paidiscura pallens
Yet more Katianna schoetti from our Staffordshire garden. I found around ten today and this was the largest (~1mm). I've posted it because the of the very dark terminal section of the antennae. I assume that these become darker in mature instars. Virtually black here.
Aquatic springtails by our garden pond. Looks like a dark-form Sminthurides aquaticus and a juvenile (possibly the same species). As usual; most of the S. aquaticus individuals around the pond are this dark form.
I was at first thinking there was a Lepidocyrtus running, but the eyecolor is different and it is very pale in my opinion.
At www.collembola.org/ I found photo's of Pseudosinella sp. :-)
This springtail is from the park in Opitter.
Does anyone have an ID for this globular springtail?
It was found in damp beech forests on the underside of wood (very moist with losts of fungi).
54 image focus stack taken with OM1 and Olympus MC-20 teleconverter, Kenko 16mm extension tube and Olympus 60mm macro lens.
Cecil County, MD.
I came across this guy about 6 inches behind a couple globular Springtails i was trying to photograph. I could have waited to see if he caught up with them but i have seen springtail bodies lying around this type of spider before, so i decided to block his path with my finger until he turned around and went away.
He wasn't much bigger than the globby's at around 2 mm.
canon eos60D, MP-E65mm + ringlite MR14ex
stack in zerene : 8 images f/7.1 iso 100, 1/60sec
08-01-2015
A couple of pictures from todays macro session at Swell Woods. Lots of Globular Springtails to photograph which is always good fun!
A 2mm long Protaphorura aurantiaca plus a 0.8mm juvenile - Tomocerus minor. Thanks to Frans for ID & notes.
Found on the underside of fallen beech leaves, Lodge Hill, Shropshire.
A little snail that I found under a log. I'm not sure what is directly underneath it but you can see a tiny springtail hiding under the edge of it's shell on the left side of the photo. Photographed in Maryland (4/18/21).
Springtails at Swell Wood a few days ago. Many thanks to Max Thompson Photo and Ellie Hilsdon who scurried around finding likely-looking logs while I mostly sat at the picnic table!