#mesofauna — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mesofauna, aggregated by home.social.
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This festival of waxy lumps is a baby biting midge, AKA a Forcipomyia larvae. Before they grow up to be bloodsuckers, they're surprisingly cute.
They're very common on decaying logs here in Aotearoa, but I don't often photograph them. However, my good friend and fellow macrophotographer Andy Murray loves them, and has a whole webpage dedicated to them - so go check that out!
https://www.chaosofdelight.org/forcipomyia
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #SoilFauna #Mesofauna #Macrophotography #Macro #Nature #NaturePhotography
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This festival of waxy lumps is a baby biting midge, AKA a Forcipomyia larvae. Before they grow up to be bloodsuckers, they're surprisingly cute.
They're very common on decaying logs here in Aotearoa, but I don't often photograph them. However, my good friend and fellow macrophotographer Andy Murray loves them, and has a whole webpage dedicated to them - so go check that out!
https://www.chaosofdelight.org/forcipomyia
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #SoilFauna #Mesofauna #Macrophotography #Macro #Nature #NaturePhotography
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This festival of waxy lumps is a baby biting midge, AKA a Forcipomyia larvae. Before they grow up to be bloodsuckers, they're surprisingly cute.
They're very common on decaying logs here in Aotearoa, but I don't often photograph them. However, my good friend and fellow macrophotographer Andy Murray loves them, and has a whole webpage dedicated to them - so go check that out!
https://www.chaosofdelight.org/forcipomyia
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #SoilFauna #Mesofauna #Macrophotography #Macro #Nature #NaturePhotography
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This festival of waxy lumps is a baby biting midge, AKA a Forcipomyia larvae. Before they grow up to be bloodsuckers, they're surprisingly cute.
They're very common on decaying logs here in Aotearoa, but I don't often photograph them. However, my good friend and fellow macrophotographer Andy Murray loves them, and has a whole webpage dedicated to them - so go check that out!
https://www.chaosofdelight.org/forcipomyia
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #SoilFauna #Mesofauna #Macrophotography #Macro #Nature #NaturePhotography
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Now Bug of the Year is over, normal service can resume!
Here's an incredibly feathery velvet mite (Chyzeriidae) from New Zealand. These active predators wander the forest floor, looking for springtails to ambush and drink dry using their piercing mouthparts! Beautiful but deadly.
#Invertebrate #Macrophotography #Entomology #Acarology #Acari #SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #Mesofauna #Arthropod
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Now Bug of the Year is over, normal service can resume!
Here's an incredibly feathery velvet mite (Chyzeriidae) from New Zealand. These active predators wander the forest floor, looking for springtails to ambush and drink dry using their piercing mouthparts! Beautiful but deadly.
#Invertebrate #Macrophotography #Entomology #Acarology #Acari #SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #Mesofauna #Arthropod
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Now Bug of the Year is over, normal service can resume!
Here's an incredibly feathery velvet mite (Chyzeriidae) from New Zealand. These active predators wander the forest floor, looking for springtails to ambush and drink dry using their piercing mouthparts! Beautiful but deadly.
#Invertebrate #Macrophotography #Entomology #Acarology #Acari #SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #Mesofauna #Arthropod
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Now Bug of the Year is over, normal service can resume!
Here's an incredibly feathery velvet mite (Chyzeriidae) from New Zealand. These active predators wander the forest floor, looking for springtails to ambush and drink dry using their piercing mouthparts! Beautiful but deadly.
#Invertebrate #Macrophotography #Entomology #Acarology #Acari #SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #Mesofauna #Arthropod
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This stunning, flat-bodied springtail is in the genus Platanurida, and can be found in old-growth beech forests in Aotearoa New Zealand.
That flattened body is perfect for helping them squeeze under loose bark and into cracks on deadwood to escape predators!
#Macrophotography #Collembola #Mesofauna #SoilFauna #SoilBiology
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It turns out that you can travel to the other side of the world and Neanura muscorum are still gonna be right there with you, in all their cuteness.
#Macrophotography #SoilEcology #SoilFauna #Springtail #Collembola #Mesofauna
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Another stunning springtail (check out the setose ventral tube!) from Port Hills in Christchurch (Entomobryoidea, possibly family Paronellidae).
Does anyone know of a modern ID key to Collembola in New Zealand?
I can't find a contemporary key, so I've started writing one... help?!
#Macrophotography #Springtail #Collembola #Mesofauna #SoilEcology #SoilFauna
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My first macrophotography venture in New Zealand was extremely productive, starting with this absolutely STUNNING Dicyrtomidae springtail, known as Calvatomina superba.
Just look at that patterning and those orange eye plates!
#Macrophotography #Collembola #Springtail #SoilEcology #SoilFauna #Mesofauna
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I was out on a coastal hike on Banks Peninsula / Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū today, and found this amazing Katiannidae species of springtail. I can’t find a species match (REALLY wish I’d had my macro camera with me), any ideas on an ID, springtail folks?
#Collembola #Springtail #Mesofauna #SoilEcology #SoilBiodiversity
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Don't mind me, I'm just doing my bit for #HotSpringtailSummer up in the Northern Hemisphere.
#SoilEcology #SoilFauna #Mesofauna #Collembola #Springtail #Macrophotography
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Sometimes with macrophotography things just line up perfectly, as with this photo of a globular springtail (a female Stenacidia violacea) on some moss.
Have a great weekend everyone!
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #SoilBiota #Collembola #Springtail #SpringtailSaturday #Macrophotography #Mesofauna
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Sometimes with macrophotography things just line up perfectly, as with this photo of a globular springtail (a female Stenacidia violacea) on some moss.
Have a great weekend everyone!
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #SoilBiota #Collembola #Springtail #SpringtailSaturday #Macrophotography #Mesofauna
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Sometimes with macrophotography things just line up perfectly, as with this photo of a globular springtail (a female Stenacidia violacea) on some moss.
Have a great weekend everyone!
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #SoilBiota #Collembola #Springtail #SpringtailSaturday #Macrophotography #Mesofauna
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Sometimes with macrophotography things just line up perfectly, as with this photo of a globular springtail (a female Stenacidia violacea) on some moss.
Have a great weekend everyone!
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #SoilBiota #Collembola #Springtail #SpringtailSaturday #Macrophotography #Mesofauna
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Sometimes with macrophotography things just line up perfectly, as with this photo of a globular springtail (a female Stenacidia violacea) on some moss.
Have a great weekend everyone!
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #SoilBiota #Collembola #Springtail #SpringtailSaturday #Macrophotography #Mesofauna
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And finally, in another first for me, a predatory prostigmatid mite (Eupodidae sp.) running around on the water surface like that's no big thing! I certainly didn't know they could do that... did you?
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Followed up with an adorable young male Deuterosminthurus pallipes (and it's the first time I've seen this species)!
#Collembola #Springtail #Macrophotography #Mesofauna #SoilBiodiversity
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You don't always need to turn over a log or rock. Here's a thread of curious mesofauna I found on the surface of my pond this weekend!
First up are these incredibly sweet, bright purple Isotomurus palustris nymphs, plus an adult one at the end for good measure...
#Collembola #Springtail #Macrophotography #Mesofauna #SoilBiodiversity
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A predatory mite (family Bdellidae) doing what it does best - feeding on a springtail. Having a mite skewer your head with its pointed chelicerae isn't the nicest way to go, but fascinating to observe!
#SoilFauna #SoilEcology #Mesofauna #SoilBiodiversity #Macrophotography #Acari #Collembola #Mite #Springtail
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For #InternationalBiodiversityDay I'll look beyond the soil, and showcase the amazing water-living springtail Podura aquatica.
Their adaptations for a life on the water surface include a flattened jumping organ, hydrophobic cuticle, and depositing their spermatophores and eggs on water!
#Collembola #Springtail #Mesofauna #Macrophotography #Biodiversity #SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #SoilEcology
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Here's something you never see - a proturan's gut contents!
The jury is still out on what exactly these tiny (less than 1.5 mm long) soil invertebrates feed on - most likely decaying organic materials and fungal hyphae...
Have a tasty weekend, everyone!
#Macrophotography #SoilFauna #SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #SoilBiodiversity #Proturan #Mesofauna
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I was out doing some macrophotography last week and saw this gorgeous Proturan! These tiny (<2mm) critters are also called coneheads, and are very poorly understood.
#Macrophotography #SoilFauna #SoilEcology #SoilBiodiversity #Mesofauna #Proturan
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I'm hoping it's better late than never for #InverteFest, with this photo of a beautiful globular springtail (Dicyrtomina saundersi)!
#SoilFauna #SoilEcology #SoilBiodiversity #Mesofauna #Springtail #SpringtailSunday #MacroPhotography #Collembola
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I don't take as many photos of 'elongate' springtails (Entomobryomorpha) as the other orders, so let's change that!
This lovely pale yellow little springtail is Entomobrya nivalis, and is so widespread across temperate and polar regions that, unlike most Collembola, it has a common name: The 'Cosmopolitan Springtail'!
#SoilFauna #SoilEcology #Mesofauna #Springtail #Collembola #MacroPhotography
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A phthiracarid (oribatid) mite exploring its decaying log home 🥰
#SoilFauna #SoilEcology #SoilBiodiversity #Mesofauna #mite #Acari #MacroPhotography
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This beautiful little creatures is a springtail known as Protaphorura aurantiaca - a fairly common British species which is found in decaying wood. Its striking yellow colour rapidly fades in alcohol, so normally I only see them as pale specimens under the microscope!
#SoilFauna #SoilEcology #Springtail #Mesofauna #MacroPhotography #Collembola
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This little beauty is an Oribatid (Cepheus) mite nymph. Each ring of ornate scales on the mite's back are a previously moulted exoskeleton!
I've been trying to get a good photo of these for so long, and it turns out all I had to do was go looking around the research station grounds where I work.
#Mite #Oribatid #Acari #SoilFauna #MesoFauna #SoilEcology #SoilEcology #Macrophotgraphy
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Symphyla are tiny, fast-moving, unpigmented relatives of centipedes and millipedes, which feed on decaying organic matter and plant roots.
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #Myriapod #Symphyla #MacroPhotography #Mesofauna
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Symphyla are tiny, fast-moving, unpigmented relatives of centipedes and millipedes, which feed on decaying organic matter and plant roots.
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #Myriapod #Symphyla #MacroPhotography #Mesofauna
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Symphyla are tiny, fast-moving, unpigmented relatives of centipedes and millipedes, which feed on decaying organic matter and plant roots.
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #Myriapod #Symphyla #MacroPhotography #Mesofauna
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Symphyla are tiny, fast-moving, unpigmented relatives of centipedes and millipedes, which feed on decaying organic matter and plant roots.
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #Myriapod #Symphyla #MacroPhotography #Mesofauna
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Symphyla are tiny, fast-moving, unpigmented relatives of centipedes and millipedes, which feed on decaying organic matter and plant roots.
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #Myriapod #Symphyla #MacroPhotography #Mesofauna
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I've been quite absent from here lately due to busy life stuff, but thanks for all the recent follows - here's a lovely little springtail (Neelus murinus) to say thanks!
Hopefully things will calm down again soon and I'll have more time to regularly post more photos on here.
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #SpringtailSaturday #Macrophotography #MesoFauna #Collembola #Springtail
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Here's an early Christmas present in the form of an early online publication!
Read about our work on "Earthworms and soil mesofauna as early bioindicators for landfill restoration" in the journal Soil Research, by heading over to: https://www.publish.csiro.au/SR/SR21286
Or if you don't have access just ping me a message for the PDF :blobgrimace:
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #Earthworm #MesoFauna #SoilFauna #Restoration #RestorationEcology #SoilResearch #Research #SoilScience
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Last week I finally found something I've always wanted to photograph - the incredible nymph of the oribatid mite genus Cepheus.
These little beauties retain their old exoskeletons on their back every time they moult, which then build up as protective ornamental rings! Each ring you see on its back here represents one moulting event.
#Mitestodon #DailyMitePic #MesoFauna #SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #SoilFauna #MacroPhotography
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A bit of excitement in the lab today, with this unusual springtail in a woodland soil sample - Katiannidae Genus nov 2 species nov!
This species is thought to have been introduced to the UK from Australasia via the horticultural trade.
#Springtail #Collembola #SoilFauna #SoilEcology #SoilBiodiversity #MesoFauna
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It's #MiteMonday!
Here's an adorable (unless you're a springtail) snout mite (Bdellidae). These active predators are constantly running around on logs, stones and the soil surface looking for prey to puncture with their piercing mouthparts.
#Mitestodon #DailyMitePic #bugstodon #SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology #SoilFauna #MesoFauna #Mite #Acari #MacroPhotography #macro
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There are few soil organisms more wonderful than Pseudoscorpions, it's always a joy to find one when I'm out with my camera!
This stout little murder machine is a compost chernes (Pselaphochernes scorpioides), found on decaying leaves in an open compost heap.
#MacroPhotography #SoilFauna #Pseudoscorpion #Arachnid #MesoFauna #SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology
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It seems appropriate to share this adorable little springtail poised to leap, as I prepare to launch off to Vancouver, Canada tomorrow for #EntSoc22.
Looking forward to sharing my macrophotography journey in the session "What Lies Beneath? The Art and Science of Soil Arthropods" More info: https://cdmcd.co/abnzEn
Hope to see some of you there!
#SoilBiodiversity #SoilFauna #Collembola #Springtail #Mesofauna #Macrophotography #Nature #SciComm #SoilEcology #NaturePhotography
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It's great to see so many familiar faces on here, hopefully Mastodon works for soil biodiversity SciComm now that Twitter has sadly razed itself to the ground. Here, start off your Sunday morning with a photo of a blue oat mite showing off its unique dorsal anus... you're welcome!
#SoilBiodiversity #SciComm #TwitterExodus #Mite #SoilFauna #Macrophotography #Mesofauna #Soil
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Part four of the BIOS 'trilogy' from the man the legend Phil Eklund.
