lims
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It was a dull wet day, ideal for amphibians, in a nature reserve suprisingly close to heavily built areas. The park is part of a network of old wagon-ways and an ancient remnant of bog systems, vaiguely connected but broken by bricks and buildings. I visited another section of the wagon-ways previously. Its obvious that these places are being encroched upon to the limit. At the previous park I visited, an old man walking his dog told me how much it had changed, how many different kinds of newt used to be in the pools, before the new metro stop, housing, supermarket etc.
Anyway here's shots from the ancient bog system trip:
On this one, read the small print, I wouldn't like to confront an electric shepard:
Here I simply asked the insect nicely to pose on the snail and it obliged:
And I also found this in a small pond/puddle, made me shiver when I actually realised what it was, didn't think they got that big in the UK:
"There are only two species of leech in the UK that feed on human blood, both of which are very rare."
This thing was moving fast when I saw it, with my hands in the water...
"In response to disturbances by an approaching host, the leech will commence "inchworm crawling", continuing in a trial and error way until the anterior sucker touches the host and attaches. Aquatic leeches are more likely to display this "pursuit" behaviour, while common land leeches often accidentally attach to a host."
I was being persued by an aquatic leech.
I found nothing else but I didn't have a net or wellington boots, I did see what I thought was a newt dissapear.
Did anyone notice the female toad was dead, she must have been crushed by love, and man-toads
.
Anyway here's shots from the ancient bog system trip:
On this one, read the small print, I wouldn't like to confront an electric shepard:
Here I simply asked the insect nicely to pose on the snail and it obliged:
And I also found this in a small pond/puddle, made me shiver when I actually realised what it was, didn't think they got that big in the UK:
"There are only two species of leech in the UK that feed on human blood, both of which are very rare."
This thing was moving fast when I saw it, with my hands in the water...
"In response to disturbances by an approaching host, the leech will commence "inchworm crawling", continuing in a trial and error way until the anterior sucker touches the host and attaches. Aquatic leeches are more likely to display this "pursuit" behaviour, while common land leeches often accidentally attach to a host."
I was being persued by an aquatic leech.
I found nothing else but I didn't have a net or wellington boots, I did see what I thought was a newt dissapear.
Did anyone notice the female toad was dead, she must have been crushed by love, and man-toads
.
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