#springtails — Public Fediverse posts
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🔬🌸 Japanese #nature photographer Pendora (ぺんどら) captures tiny globular #springtails measuring around 0.3 mm in length.
These wetland micro-arthropods display face-to-face courtship interactions and use a spring-loaded tail organ called a furcula to execute high-speed jumps that look like #teleportation.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/odoriko-tobimushi-sminthurides-springtails-video
#animals #arthropods #biology #cute #hexapod #macro #mating #microscopy #physics #science #wetlands #insects #macrophotography #japan #microbiology #wildlife #entomology #photography #zoology #tksst #video
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🔬🌸 Japanese #nature photographer Pendora (ぺんどら) captures tiny globular #springtails measuring around 0.3 mm in length.
These wetland micro-arthropods display face-to-face courtship interactions and use a spring-loaded tail organ called a furcula to execute high-speed jumps that look like #teleportation.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/odoriko-tobimushi-sminthurides-springtails-video
#animals #arthropods #biology #cute #hexapod #macro #mating #microscopy #physics #science #wetlands #insects #macrophotography #japan #microbiology #wildlife #entomology #photography #zoology #tksst #video
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💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🔬🌸 Japanese #nature photographer Pendora (ぺんどら) captures tiny globular #springtails measuring around 0.3 mm in length.
These wetland micro-arthropods display face-to-face courtship interactions and use a spring-loaded tail organ called a furcula to execute high-speed jumps that look like #teleportation.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/odoriko-tobimushi-sminthurides-springtails-video
#animals #arthropods #biology #cute #hexapod #macro #mating #microscopy #physics #science #wetlands #insects #macrophotography #japan #microbiology #wildlife #entomology #photography #zoology #tksst #video
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💁🏻♀️ NEW: 🔬🌸 Japanese #nature photographer Pendora (ぺんどら) captures tiny globular #springtails measuring around 0.3 mm in length.
These wetland micro-arthropods display face-to-face courtship interactions and use a spring-loaded tail organ called a furcula to execute high-speed jumps that look like #teleportation.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/odoriko-tobimushi-sminthurides-springtails-video
#animals #arthropods #biology #cute #hexapod #macro #mating #microscopy #physics #science #wetlands #insects #macrophotography #japan #microbiology #wildlife #entomology #photography #zoology #tksst #video
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Vergissmeinnicht-Blüten mit einem gelben Kugelspringer. Der Hintergrund liegt noch im Schatten.
Forget-me-not blossom with a yellow globular springtail insect. The background is still in shadow.
#schwarzweiss
#schwarzweiß
#monochrome
#monochrom
#photography
#blackandwhite
#blackandwhitephotography
#forgetmenot
#blossoms
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Adding to my Snowflea aka Springtail photos from yesterday: if you look closely you can see a few of them in mid air above the snow ridge. They use a spring-loaded lever on their bodies to catapult them into the air to a height of about 100 times their body length (1mm).
Also, they have an antifreeze protein in their body, thus can be active in the snow.
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Slides from my talk last night to the Field #Naturalists Association of #Canberra:
"Lessons from #Malaise trapping in Aranda"
As with most of my talks, there are few notes, but the gallery of amazing #insects may mean something to some of you.
#entomology #taxonomy #DNAbarcoding #biodiversity #OnceAndFutureKing #Hymenoptera #Lepidoptera #Strepsiptera #Hemiptera #Collembola #Araneae #wasps #moths #springtails #spiders
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went to the park and flipped a log which was in icy ankle-deep slush but still yielded the usuals.
#bugstodon #insects #springtails #beetles #mites #Mitestodon #Acari #Parasitiformes #Mesostigmata #Coleoptera #Staphylinidae #Collembola #Entomobryomorpha #Hymenoptera
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White and yellow witches butter fungus. With a globular springtail. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/back-to-mushrooms-again.html #VancouverIsland #Mushrooms #Fungi #Invertebrates #Springtails #NaturePhotography
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flipped a rotting stick in the woods the other day, found tiny metallic springtails (likely _Lepidocyrtus_) feeding on the fungi.
#bugstodon #springtails #Collembola #Entomobryomorpha #Entomobryidae #fungi #mushtodon #sporespondence
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Some of the tiny critters that I've found in our gravel driveway:
These are springtails of the genus Seira, and possibly Seira ferrarii according to a springtail expert on iNaturalist
Springtails are tiny six-legged arthropods that aren't insects
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Plump Springtails (Poduromorpha)
#Springtails #Collembola #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Arthropods #Arthropoda #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
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Here are a couple of the invertebrate finds from our three-day field trip into the mountains this weekend with our Field Ecology Methods course at #LincolnUniversityNZ
The weevil somehow ended up in the hair of student Emilie while she was walking through the Boyle beech forest. She put it in a vial and brought it back to the lodge for photographing. It's the NZ endemic weevil Eurynotia enysi and this is the 16th record on #iNaturalist and the species isn't even on GBIF.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/303365453
The springtail was found under a log in beech forest by staff member Jennifer Gillette. We were looking for giant springtails and instead found this wee cutie. @frankashwood helped us to identify it on #iNaturalistNZ as genus Platanurida, one of the Short-legged Springtails. This is the 20th observation of this genus on iNat globally (there are 2 records on GBIF).
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/303359336
So little is known about most NZ invertebrates that making useful finds like this is easy. We need more people with macro attachments for their phones out exploring NZ's mountains.
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And just as I got home I saw a snout mite (family Bdellidae) feeding on a springtail on a patch of lichen, and had to go in and get my light and clip-on lenses to get a proper photo.
#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #mites #springtails #Acari #Acariformes #Prostigmata #Bdellidae #Collembola #LichenSubscribe
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#HotSpringtailSummer is back. globular springtails dancing on a leaf in the garden
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I almost forgot it was #MiteMonday! From under one of my reliable dead logs just a few days ago, a mesostig with its prey, a tiny white springtail; a slug for scale; and a smaller, paler mesostig crossing paths with another springtail (which it did not try to eat).
#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #springtails #Acari #Parasitiformes #Mesostigmata #Collembola #Poduromorpha
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#MiteMonday: wintertime rock flipping turned up some penthaleids and those iridescent purple springtails, not quite sure what they are. They were about the same size (see third photo).
#DailyMitePic #Mitestodon #arachnids #mites #Acari #Acariformes #Penthaleidae #springtails #Collembola
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Mapping #Antarctica's hidden ice-free lands: A blueprint for conservation https://phys.org/news/2025-01-antarctica-hidden-ice-free-blueprint.html paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-04424-y
"The ice-free lands are home to uniquely adapted flora including micro-forests of #lichens, #moss, and two flowering plants, Antarctic hairgrass and pearlwort. They also sustain a variety of #mites, #springtails, #tardigrades, #nematodes, #algae, and #microbes. #Seabirds have established breeding colonies in these areas too."