Yet more Collembola shots

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These are from my garden today when I had 20 mintutes at dinner time.

This one seemed very still when I found it I only noticed what seems to be its moulted skin behind it on the PC

Dicyrtomina-saundersi-moult by alf.branch, on Flickr

Dicyrtomina-saundersi-2 by alf.branch, on Flickr

This one was ding laps of the leaf while I was taken the previous ones portrait.

Collembola by alf.branch, on Flickr

Collembola-2 by alf.branch, on Flickr

This one was on the fence

Collembola-3 by alf.branch, on Flickr

This large one was on my bin

Collembola-4 by alf.branch, on Flickr


Here is another from two days previous on the same bin

Collembola by alf.branch, on Flickr
 
Lovely. That last one is a really dark Katiannidae isn't it? Probably one of the unnamed introduced species, but I've not seen one that dark before :)
 
Logical Fallacy said:
Lovely. That last one is a really dark Katiannidae isn't it? Probably one of the unnamed introduced species, but I've not seen one that dark before :)
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Funny you should say that about the dark Katiannidae as it mirrors what has been said on Flickr
 
Fantastic Alf! The freshly moulted ones are very special. I really like the Kats too, I'm jealous you get these in your garden.

Yep, not seen one that dark before either (I'm talking about other photo's mainly - I only encountered my first Katiannidae last weekend).
 
Brilliant set Alf and you are very lucky to have found some new species. Do you get to name them if they are genuine first finds did you find out?
 
"Excellent" set Alf, the detail is stunning with some good composition on most of them together with some great colour.(y)

George.
 
Thanks to all for the comments.
 
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