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I think... But might be Hypogastrura manubrialis.
I think he's been a bit squished :@(
About 1-1.5mm long
This fly was tiny, about 2 or 3mm long at most. I was really surprised to see that it was eating an even smaller insect (maybe a springtail). Due to the size, I couldn't even see its meal till I looked at this photo on a bigger screen. Photographed today at Lake Waterford in Maryland.
From a Collembola hunt in RSPB Swell wood with Steve. Love these tiny hexapods.
The best part of 2mm 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,
It is cropped a bit to show some of the detail. Otherwise, even at 2x magnification, it was too small to show.
My fav subject lately is a springtail.
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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.
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 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.
From our Staffordshire garden this morning. I decided to look under just one more leaf and found this!
I think it may be Katianna nr schotti, but I only remember ever photographing one individual before (also in our garden). It conveniently stayed on the leaf while I rushed in for my camera. Sadly, a gust of wind them blew it away!
54 image focus stack taken with OM1 and Olympus MC-20 teleconverter, Kenko 16mm extension tube and Olympus 60mm macro lens.
Cecil County, MD.
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).
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).