April 2023
Ants and a dandelion
No snails today, but I saw these ants on a dandelion. I checked the other dandelions in the garden for ants but didn’t see them on the others. I’m not sure why they liked this one more. Maybe because it was closer to the flower bed or it had more aphids on it. It looked like they were after the nectar though.
Colorful snails!
This display of snails was photographed by Dr. Marco Langbroek from the Netherlands in January 2023 at the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt, Germany. It shows the color polymorphism of the banded grove snail. The shell colour is very variable (yellow to red-brown) as is the number of stripes (0 to 5).
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