Here's a selection of recent shots that involve a springtail meeting something else or another springtail.
Here's a couple of the same species (not sure which - Isomoturus palustris?) meeting each other.
Here an adult Dicyrtomina saundersi barges past a juvenile Dicyrtomina minuta (I think).
In this one, a small ground beetle goes against phenotype and takes to the water. A springtail, probably Lepidocyrtus cyaneus, clings temporarily to his leg. Sorry about the harsh light, but my diffusers are made of kitchen roll and touched the water and fell of in a soggy mess!
Here I did a four-shot focus stack of an adult Dicyrtomina saundersi and only after processing did I see the tiny juvenile in far right. He must have been very small if the adult is about 2mm long.
Finally a springtail measures itself up against a juvenile wolf spider.
