2017 February 20

   Rosemary Jorna found this snail at Kemp Lake Road, February 21.  It should be possible to identify the snail.  Suggestions, anyone?

Snail – for identification someone, please?    Rosemary Jorna

   Rosemary writes that, a metre from the live snail, she came across three shells close together all open in the same way.  She asks what would bring them to one spot and eat them in such a manner.  I wonder if they were broken by a crow or a gull dropping them from a height.  But then you wouldn’t expect to find three close together.  Ideas, anyone?  Identification of the snail, anyone?   It looks like a different species to me from the one above.  Jeremy Tatum

Broken snail shell.  Rosemary Jorna

   Another snail photographed by Rosemary is this tiny, tiny Vertigo snail on a maple tree. 

 Vertigo snail (Pul.: Vertiginidae)    Rosemary Jorna

And lastly, a small moth:

Alucita montana  (Lep.: Alucitidae)    Rosemary Jorna