Tegenaria, Opilione, and a water loving Globular Springtail

Paul Iddon

Three different images tonight from the darkness of the garden.

Exif on all is 1/250th @ ISO 125, f10.

First up is the spider, Tegenaria sp. (probably gigantea). She was stood on the wall of the outhouse and on spotting her (that was so obviously the easy bit!) I went back indoors to get the camera. One tube used on this:



Second up is the harvestman - a youngster this one - short legs compared to what I usually find in the garden. Three tubes used to get in here:



Last up and best find probably of the look around in the depths of night, is on a leaf in the pond. This is a water-borne springtail, this collembola is I believe Sminthurides malmgreni. I have cropped it in for the last image too, though it didn't look so good compared to the uncropped version truth be told - but it gives you a some idea of the markings. Three tubes also used for the globular springtail:






Paul.

Lord Vetinari

Lovely series Paul. I've still not spotted any globbies yet.
Re the opilione- I suspect you have different species- some seem to have much longer legs than others even though the main body seems the same size.

Brian v.

Paul Iddon

Lord Vetinari wrote: »

Lovely series Paul. I've still not spotted any globbies yet.
Re the opilione- I suspect you have different species- some seem to have much longer legs than others even though the main body seems the same size.

Brian v.

Thanks for the info Brian.

I just googled it and see there are 3,500 species of opiliones!


Paul.