More Springtail Madness

GOLDENORFE

spent a few hours shooting springy things
found 2 new species of globular in garden .
phil

#1 Calvatomina nr superba approx 1mm, a newly introduced species from new zealand!



#2 D saundersi 2mm



#3 Dicyrtomina minuta AS SHOT X5 MAG 5D2 note the newly sheded skin this species is TINY!



#4 Dicyrtomina minuta AS SHOT X5 MAG 450D which makes it less than 1mm!



#5 crop from 450d image So Cute! note big head size presumably from just shedding skin



#6 D Saundersi a big one at 2mm



need to go write springtail blog now

Lord Vetinari

Wonderful captures Phil - congrats on the new species for you - interesting looking eye patch on #1
Brian v.

Joshi

Nice captures! How long did you sit there waiting for them to show up?

Btw did you notice they all have hairy bottoms except for the last one


Josie

GOLDENORFE

thanks for comments,

josie - i find them under bark in garden, just carry a piece and place on patio steps and they hop off onto the stone step, i try to get them to walk along the edge so i can get a nice low angle to shoot from!

ps i dont go around looking at hairy bottoms rofl

Viceroy

GOLDENORFE wrote: »

thanks for comments,

josie - i find them under bark in garden, just carry a piece and place on patio steps and they hop off onto the stone step, i try to get them to walk along the edge so i can get a nice low angle to shoot from!

ps i dont go around looking at hairy bottoms rofl

Wonderful captures as usual.

GOLDENORFE

Thanks for looking & commenting

IPClark

Great shots Phil. These actually look rather cute