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How The Other Half Live

Posted on December 16, 2011, 11:06 pm, by anna, under Animals, Decay, Insects, Leaves, Mushrooms.

Whilst humans go about their daily lives, scurrying in and out of their big brick buildings, here, amongst this delicious leaf litter, there is a whole community of little animals living where these large and unexpected mushrooms have burst forth. Snails, woodlice, earwigs, millipedes, beetle larvae, fully-fledged beetles, slugs, earthworms…all manner of minibeasts abide here. […]

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Who Has Been Doodling On This Leaf?

Posted on October 25, 2011, 1:09 am, by anna, under Animals, Insects, Leaves.

Nobody! Because the doodling is actually happening from the very inside of the leaf! There is a tiny insect larva in there, munching its meandering way, boring a path through the cells of the leaf, leaving in its wake this translucent tunnel. The dark spot at the end of the doodle – the eye – […]

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