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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

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

@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

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
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
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

#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.

© #StefanFWirth, #Berlin 2025

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

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© S.F. Wirth 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

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