We recently recovered a small petri dish mistakenly left outside for several months gathering rain. Rather than just wash it out we decided first to see what had colonised the dish during this time. We could already see that lots of algae had formed throughout the dish. Lots of detritus had also arrived as well.Continue reading “Being tiny changes everything!”
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The Common Chrysalis Snail
Today we confirmed our first ever record of the normally very common land snail, Lauria cylindracea. Sadly we only found it’s shell, the animal itself obviously recently perished. It was attached to some Nostoc (a cyanobacterium) in amongst the mosses on the concrete steps as shown below. Known as The Common Chrysalis Snail, we assumeContinue reading “The Common Chrysalis Snail”
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