New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2025/04/21/day-four-here-there-and-everywhere/
A look at the state of play as the current round of county championship matches draws to a close. Also a large photo gallery.
#cricket #CountyCricket #CountyChampionship #photography #birds #insects #molluscs #bees #snails
Today I went to see the rarest snails in the world. These critically endangered mollusks exist only in a little pond in Banff. Since it's a sulphur hot spring, the whole area smells of snail farts.
In other news, I sold another poem.
https://bowvalleynaturalists.org/natural-history/snails/ #snail #CriticallyEndangered #SpeciesAtRisk #molluscs #mollusk #FreshwaterSnail #WildlifePhotography #PoetryCommunity
Here is a fabulous snail!
I totally forgot @KateShaw released new episode today, and I just found out it's about cephalopods ... the other other cephalopods.
https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/04/07/episode-427-the-other-cephalopods/
listening now.
#BiologicalInvasions expert Prof. Franz Essl from Austria gave a seminar today at #LincolnUniversityNZ. He showed a study of the global distribution of slugs and snails. Natives show distinct biogeographic regions. Australasian snails were different from African snails which were different from South American snails. Yet, naturalised snails (moved around the world by people) were just temperate and tropical. We are dramatically simplifying the natural world by moving species about. #molluscs
A Violet Snail (Janthina sp.) preying on a By-the-wind Sailor (Velella velella)
"Functional mapping of the molluscan brain guided by synchrotron X-ray tomography", Crossley et al. 2025
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40014565/