Tiny but cute Slender Springtail (Entomobryidae, Collembola)
This tiny critter is as small as some of the mushrooms and slime molds I've been showing lately! I believe it's a Slender Springtail in the family Entomobryidae of the class Collembola - possibly genus Entomobrya. It's so tiny that this is a 1:1 800x1066 crop from my 6000x4000 original photo taken as a 1:1 macro shot - it's about 450 pixels long, which comes to about comes to about 1.7 mm, about 1/16 inch. (See here for how I figured.) I got this photo above our retaining wall in deep shade. The insect is near the edge of a green leaf of California Honeysuckle (Lonicera hispidula, Caprifoliaceae), and it didn't hop away from me. It's kind of cute for being so tiny! (San Marcos Pass, 18 December 2018)
Tiny but cute Slender Springtail (Entomobryidae, Collembola)
This tiny critter is as small as some of the mushrooms and slime molds I've been showing lately! I believe it's a Slender Springtail in the family Entomobryidae of the class Collembola - possibly genus Entomobrya. It's so tiny that this is a 1:1 800x1066 crop from my 6000x4000 original photo taken as a 1:1 macro shot - it's about 450 pixels long, which comes to about comes to about 1.7 mm, about 1/16 inch. (See here for how I figured.) I got this photo above our retaining wall in deep shade. The insect is near the edge of a green leaf of California Honeysuckle (Lonicera hispidula, Caprifoliaceae), and it didn't hop away from me. It's kind of cute for being so tiny! (San Marcos Pass, 18 December 2018)