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@futurebird I love these cuties! Thank you for the link!

My first #springtail love came with the wonderful photos of @frankashwood and I'm already so curiously looking forward to his book 'The World Beneath Our Feet'.

#soil #soilLife #biodiversity

myrmepropagandist Mar 27

I love this youTube channel.
Watch:

* a #springtail eats a thin layer of orange goo from a translucent slime mold. (this sounds gross but it's beautiful)
* a small globular springtail dances for a larger one, they tap antennae
* Soft tiny springtails hide under larger bumpy springtails.
* a predatory springtail hunts
* a scary predatory mite
* a gummy bear come to life...

There is so much going on right under our feet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4prbyvzZNf0

トビムシ

YouTube

Wellfotos Mar 8

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Dicyrtomina ornata 🇩🇪
I went into the forest to test out my new OM System camera and decided to take some photos of a mushroom. I did this with a tree mushroom. While focus stacking, I noticed something small crawling around — probably springtails. When I got closer, I discovered two of them.
ℹ️ The Dicyrtomina ornata grows to a length of about 1.8 mm. It feeds on plant litter, fungi and lichens, among other things. It can sometimes be found in soil and damp forests. With its jumping fork, it can jump far when danger is imminent.

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Bunter Kugelspringer 🇩🇪
📝 Ich bin zum testen meiner neuen OM-System Kamera mal in den Wald gegangen und wollte ein paar Fotos von einem Pilz machen. Das habe ich dann bei einem Baumpilz gemacht. Beim Fokus Stacking ist mir dann aufgefallen, dass dort etwas kleines krabbelt, vermutlich Springschwänze. Und beim näheren ran gehen habe ich dann zwei Kugelspringer entdeckt.
Dank einer Mischung aus der Hilfe von iNaturalist, einen User und Vergleiche bei der Suche #kugelspringer, weiß ich, dass es sich wahrscheinlich um bunter Kugelspringer handelt.
ℹ️ Der bunte Kugelspringer (Dicyrtomina ornata) wird ca. 1,8 mm lang. Er ernährt sich u.a. von pflanzlichen Streu, Pilzen und Flechten. Er ist mitunter im Erdreich und in feuchten Wäldern zu finden. Mit seiner Sprunggabel kann er weit springen, wenn Gefahr in Vollzug ist.

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Cam: #om1markii
lens: #mzuiko90mm bei 90 mm
flash: #godoxv1
diffuser: #akdiffuser

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Blende: 8.0
Verschlusszeit: 1/100
ISO: 200

#wellfotos #bunterkugelspringer #Dicyrtominaornata #springtail #naturfotografie #nature #natur #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #omsystem #godox #makro #macro #makrofotografie #macrophotography #germany

Jon Sullivan Mar 7

Sometimes a moth is more than it seems.

I looked twice at this moth photo I was uploading to #iNaturalist. There was an orange spot on one wing. A parasitic mite?

No! It's a globular springtail!

I'm not sure if it hitched a ride into the moth light on this moth or came in on another insect.

springtail: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/341756456
moth: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/341756462

#phoresy #Collembola #Springtail #entomology #NZ

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Jer 🚲Feb 8

@idzie The oddest ones we run across are snow fleas. They aren't fleas, just have the jumping mannerism. They are called Springtails because they "wind up" a little lever at end of body and when that lets go it sends them flying high into the air. Usually if you see them in winter it's near a tree trunk on a sunny day. Second photo shows a thick mass of them (purple!) in July.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springtail
#Springtail

Mads Dec 24

I only see the #springtails when I'm editing...
the centipede is was about 25mm long in total, and this is just a section.

Second image is a globular springtail photobombing.

#photography #globularspringtail #nature #naturephotography #winter #arthropod #denmark #macro #macrophotography #cygnustechdiffuser #darktable #sonya7iii #centipede #springtail #tamronmacro #fullframe

treeful Nov 17

Sharing is caring! What's better than a meal with a friend?

#snail #springtail #fungi #fungiFriends #nature #naturephotography #macro #macrophotography #art #MastoArt #fediart #photography

Guerric Haché Oct 16

Not the best photos, but I was very excited to find this Sminthurinus quadrimaculatus in the field!

#springtail #arthropod #sminthurinus #invertebrate #macro #macrophotography #naturephotography #inaturalist #bcparks #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

Guerric Haché Sep 26, 2025

Didn't find a lot of springtails in the Okanagan last spring, so this Bourletiella hortensis (garden springtail) was quite exciting! Photographing on white trays is still challenging for me.

#springtail #collembola #bourletiella #arthropod #invertebrate #bcparks #macro #inaturalist #macrophotography #okanagan #similkameen #britishcolumbia #canada

Stefan F. Wirth Sep 16, 2025

#Springtail #Orchesella #cincta is up to 4 mm long, native to #Europe/Canada and is #herbivorous/ fungi-bacteriovorous, #living e.g.in dead plant tissue. Specimen below: on #deadwood with island-like #fungalgrowth, mites, e.g. #Linopodes, and i.a. #isopods.
G. Ernsting & J. A. Isaaks (2002) found the #dimorphic #gendersize with smaller males being due to growth inhibition by #spermatophore development.

Ref
https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2311.2002.00395.x