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Lumbricus terrestris
Earth worm matting.the second picture show the bizarre way they do it,each one is strongly grabed in her "house"(hole),the front part completly fused,they have litle grabe "claw's" along the body so they can grabe things (like i show in a spot that they where grabing a leaf) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumbricus_t...
Spotted on Jan 2, 2012
Submitted on Jan 4, 2012
7 Comments
Thanks Makita
Great spotting!
@thanks Ava:)
@Juliana,here in portugal we call them also by Minhoca and thanks for the comment
Here in Brazil, we call the Minhoca.
Very cool spotting!
Amazing spotting!
yeah martinl,the mating ritual takes hours,i dont see the final part,but in the mornig they where gone.the leafs and dirt that you see from where they emerge are( there are douzens spreaded allover this part of the garden) the entrace of the holes that they use to penetrate the soil(i have several spotts of that kind of structure),they steel from one another the materials and from what i see they do this to protect the entrance of the hole,because ther predaters(?)are allways waiting nearby
thanks for your comment
p.s.i have also photos about a matting of leopard slugs that i'll post soon(i'am in the process of editing the photos,it's a bizarre matting to)
This is fascinating, Antonio and bizarre.