#24-4: Back to the forest!
The Forest
(My main location)
#24-4.9 unedited
A motionless oribatid mite. It’s rare for them to be perfectly still like this one, so I’m very happy to have gotten this shot.
#24-4.1 unedited (Ptenothrix castanea?)
High magnification portraits of springtails are very hard to get right. I’ve been avoiding them a bit since I can never get them perfect, especially the hairs on the top of the body, but I tried again with this one.
#24-4.2 unedited (Sabacon sp.)
An adult Sabaconid harvestman. I don’t find these that often, so I was happy to find 2 very cooperative ones this weekend!
#24-4.3 unedited (Sabacon sp.)
#24-4.4 unedited (Sabacon sp.)
#24-4.5 unedited
I spotted a springtail on some moss, and when I looked closer through my camera I saw this spermatophore. I took a focus stack trying to get only the spermatophore in focus.
#24-4.6 unedited
I changed my settings a little. A lower aperture to make the spermatophore sharper and get better bokeh.
Backyard Stump #2
#24-4.7 unedited (Ptenothrix palmata)
#24-4.10 unedited (Ptenothrix castanea?)
#24-4.11 unedited (Ptenothrix sp.11?)
I’m really enjoying searching for springtails in moss.
#24-4.14 unedited (Ptenothrix sp.11?)
#24-4.15 unedited
Found on a really black part of a log in a dry stream bed.
#24-4.17 unedited (Ptenothrix castanea?)
Found on a reddish log in the same stream bed.
#24-4.18 unedited (Ptenothrix maculosa ssp. olympia?)
#24-4.19 unedited (Ptenothrix palmata)
#24-4.20 unedited (Ptenothrix palmata)
#24-4.21 unedited (Tomoceridae)
These tomocerid springtails are usually very twitchy, so I rarely get a good focus stack of one. Luckily this one stayed completely still, and was in a nice looking spot.
