Warm night adventure

[urbpan]

After todays cold rains, tropical air has come in ("tropical" meaning 57 degrees--10 degrees warmer than during the day) and it's very pleasant to be outside. We went out to walk the dogs and passed by a chirping snowy tree cricket. I found it with the flashlight and tried to photograph it, but didn't get much of it. After the dog walk, I came outside again, tried to get the snowy tree cricket again (I'm experiencing sudden anxiety about the 365 project--It seems impossible to get another 67 species, now that the leaves are mostly gone and cold and snow are coming) and failed. So I walked around the area a little bit, hoping to hear another one, or find something, anything, that I could photograph for the project. I didn't find anything new, but I had fun walking around and observing some animals that come out on warm dark nights, and trying a new photography technique.




Can you see the snowy tree cricket?


Tree-climbing earthworm.




Leopard slug.


English garden snail.


A baby one.

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[momomom.livejournal.com]

Oh my...where's cotton's macro on this one, lol.

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Hey,

Leopard Slugs rock. Especially when they mate. The two slugs entwine their penises together and the resultant structure looks like a bioluminescent violet (and of course, both slugs crawl away preggers)