Boren Park: Autumn Invertibrate Hunt (Photos, Sketches & a Poem) - Journal Entry 7

Order: Isopoda - Common Pillbug (Armadillium vulgare)

Order: Isopoda - Common Pillbug (Armadillium vulgare)
Turned over leaf litter to find many pillbugs scurrying to find cover.  

Order: Gastropoda - Unknown Snail
I found this very tiny snail on a leaf.  It appears to be deep inside its shell was not moving.  

Order: Diplopoda - Unknown Millipede
Found many examples of this specimen all of which were found curled up under leaf litter in the top soil.  Is possible they are in hibernation or dead from recent rains? 

Order: Diplopoda - Unknown Millipede

Order: Oligochaeta - Earthworm
This earthworm was not happy to be uncovered.  It wriggled back into the soil to avoid exposure.  

Order: Diplopoda - Unknown Millipede
This millipede was found crawling over a small stick I happened to pick up to use a a probing device.  

Order: Diplopoda - Unknown Millipede

Order: Gastropoda - Slug
This slug was either playing dead or was really dead. Found under a log.  

Order: Coleoptera - Beetle
This beetle was found in wood debris that collected in the space between buttressing tree roots.  

Order: Coleoptera - Beetle

Order: Chilopoda - Unknown Centipede
Removed leaf litter and this centipede fell out.  It quickly turned itself over and proceeded to take cover.

Order: Chilopoda & Diplopoda - Centipede and Millipedes
Found under a log, all subjects began to dig down to escape exposure.  

Haiku for the forest bloodsucker (Mosquito)

You used your syringe.
You took a small part of me.

Slap! Vengeance is mine!