Springtails

[daft_biker]

Seen quite a few different ones recently

Deuteraphorura inermis (probably!):

Common as muck apparently but can't find any other photographs of live ones....just bits of dead ones. Found in the soil in my garden and was the first time I've seen one.

Protaphorura aurantiaca:

Juvenile Dicyrtomina ornata:

First time I'd seen that too Going back next weekend to try and find an adult.

Juvenile Dicyrtomina saundersi:

Also found a couple of variations of Isotoma viridis:

Not too much else about up here for shooting just now....not that I'm complaining

 

[Blue Eagle]

Great shots! MP-E 65?

 

[Dogfish_magnet]

Detailed & clear shots - i've not managed to find any of these yet ...dead or alive

 

[daft_biker]

Detailed & clear shots - i've not managed to find any of these yet ...dead or alive

Cheers guys Aye, MP-E 65mm and MT-24ex (no diffusers, all single shots).

A good place to find them is piles of leaves in soggy bits of the woods:

Most of the ones I find are in habitats just like that.....just find a nice big pile of rotting leaves and start digging

 

[zarozinia]

Excellent shots - all of them.

 

[Alliec]

Wonderful shots. Love these little guys.

 

[daft_biker]

Cheers...addictive wee things these