Under the Plant Pots

The creatures living under the plant pots don’t seem to care so much about the temperature, but are back enjoying damper conditions. Doing a quick check around under all the plants I came across plenty of worms, arthropods, woodlice and springtails, including some new ones for the list. #392 Common Cryptops (Cryptops hortensis) is a blind centipede with 21 pairs of legs. #394 Common Shiny Woodlouse (Oniscus asellus) is quite common, but one I’d previously failed to pick out from the multitudes of woodlice around the garden. Orchesella cincta (#395) is a well marked springtail, quite large as springtails go, living in a colony under one of the pots. There was also a new Rove Beetle, Tachyporus nitidulus (#396). Some of these creatures are getting too small to photograph or even see properly without a microscope.

#140 Redhead Worm (Lumbricus rubellus)

#208 White-legged Snake Millipede (Tachypodoiulus niger)

#392 Common Cryptops (Cryptops hortensis )

#394 Common Shiny Woodlouse (Oniscus asellus)

#395 Orchesella cincta (Springtail)

#243 Strawberry Snail (Trochulus striolatus)