A heavy dew, a patchy light ground frost and some early short-lived mist made for a very damp start to the day on the Downs. Dewdrops dripped from everything …….. hawthorn, holly and even the fungus on rotting logs.

With that amount of dew around I decided to spend some time looking under the leaves of the evergreen trees and creepers to see if I could find more globular springtails. Although I have been finding these regularly for the past few weeks I had not yet achieved a really satisfactory photo of one.

Hopefully I have now put that right with images of some that I located on an ivy climbing the trunk of a Silver Birch. These are most likely of the species Dicyrtomina saundersi, although separation from the very similar D. ornata is quite tricky.

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