Mastodawn

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

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

#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

#Photos
© S.F. Wirth 2025

gerg Jul 5, 2025

A tiny springtail, Morulina sp. (left), and a beetle mite, Oribatellidae sp. (right), crawling over white-footed slime, Diachea leucopodia. Springtails are hexapods - they have six legs - but are not considered to be insects due to their internal mouthparts.

#macro #nature #springtail #notaninsect #mite #beetlemite #slimemould #slimemold

Frank Ashwood Jun 26, 2025

Like all arthropods, springtails need to shed their exoskeletons to grow - and I recently got very lucky to find a giant springtail that had just moulted!

I don't know if anyone's ever photographed this before!

#SoilEcology#SoilBiodiversity #Collembola #Entomology #Macrophotography #Springtail #Nature #NaturePhotography

Colin Purrington May 16, 2025

Old photo but now with a completely different ID, Ptenothrix renateae, thanks to some kind people on iNaturalist. I read through the 1985 description of this species and am guessing it's the dorsal pattern that gives it away. #springtail #collembola #inaturalist #macro https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/8360868

Ptenothrix renateae

Ptenothrix renateae from 1031 Palmers Mill Rd, Media, PA 19063, USA on February 9, 2017 at 12:33 PM by Colin Purrington

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Damon Tighe Apr 10, 2025

Found this globular springtail on some
Morels this week in Oakland. The chillest #springtail I’ve ever met, just went about its business eating the mushroom while I creeped on in with a camera for a very very long time.

#macro #macrophotography #nature

Guerric Haché Apr 5, 2025

A twofer! A springtail (probably a juvenile Ptenothrix), riding on the back of a weevil (Sthereus horridus). I often find springtails riding other animals.

#springtail #weevil #beetle #sthereus #ptenothrix #arthropod #invertebrates #inaturalist #macro #macrophotography #canada #britishcolumbia #vancouver