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Life in a Vernal Pool
We have a temporary wetland on our property. The water is not very deep–three inches at its deepest. It’s really just clumps of grass with water in between. The area is enough of a wetland to attract frogs, but it … Continue reading
Posted in Biological diversity
Tagged copepods, mosquito larvae, ostracods, snails, springtails, tempory wetlands
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History of the Butterfly, Part 39: Malacological Smackdown, Part 2
So Samuel Parker decided he had discovered a new species of snail and wrote up a scientific description of it. However, he had not reviewed the other species to see if there already was one like it. The crowd snickered … Continue reading
History of the Butterfly, Part 38: A Malacological Smackdown
In August, 1850, the Reverend Samuel Parker brought a paper to the American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting. The paper purported to describe a terrestrial snail species that was new to science. The result was sort of a … Continue reading
History of the Butterfly, Part 31: Snails in the Civil War
The story cannot escape from its time, which was the middle of the Civil War. The characters in Rambles after Land Shells go to see soldiers off to war: “Four o’clock came, and with it a great cloud of dust … Continue reading
History of the Butterfly, Part 30: Ramble on
From Rambles after Land Shells, by Helen F. Parker Page 11: This snail is now known as Vallonia pulchella. Page 39: The Neohelix alleni was once considered a subspecies of Polygyra albolabris, a.k.a. Helix albolabris. This snail is now known … Continue reading
History of the Butterfly, Part 29: Helen Rambles
Rambles After Land Shells is a very unusual book. First notice the publisher—The American Tract Society. That publisher primarily publishes religious books, and has for most of its history. The time frame is notable as well. The book was … Continue reading
A snail
A number of upland pillsnails, Euchemotrema fraternum, can be found by looking under logs, pieces of bark, and old wood around our lawn.
Ants and snails
While splitting logs the other day I happened to split one that had a branch and a hollow part in it. It broke up an ant’s nest and the ants started scurrying around carrying their eggs and larva. There were … Continue reading
Posted in ants, snails, Uncategorized
Tagged ants, eggs, larva, quick gloss, snails, Zonitoides arboreus
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A Snail
I looked under some loose bark the other day to see what I could find. I was looking mostly for snails and only found a couple of live ones, mixed in with a dozen or so empty shells. At this … Continue reading
