2015 January 5

 

   Not many caterpillars around at the moment, but it’s not quite zero, for Morgan Davies sent a photograph of one on Sidney Island yesterday.   Not sure if we are going to be able to identify it to species, but it is surely either a noctuid or an erebid.

 

Unknown caterpillar  (Lep.: Noctuidae or Erebidae) Morgan Davies

 

   Scott Gilmore writes:  There was an interesting phenomenon noticed in Lantzville on January 3. There were huge numbers of very small worms found wriggling on what was left of our snow. I found out about it and quickly went to look in my backyard late last night. There were worms everywhere and they were all between 2 and 5cm long. 

 

   Jeremy Tatum remarks:  To my eyes these don’t look like the usual European Lumbricus species that we are used to.  Perhaps it is one of our native species.  Is there a viewer out there who can help us?

 

Unknown worm   Scott Gilmore

 

Unknown worm   Scott Gilmore

 

 

Unknown worm   Scott Gilmore