First on iNat for the SF Bay Area: Southern Flatcoil Snail (non-native)
One day into the new project, already something interesting. This snail was in a plant nursery in Cupertino: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/101369553
One day into the new project, already something interesting. This snail was in a plant nursery in Cupertino: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/101369553
Multiple specimens of an invasive land flatworm were documented in a Campbell, CA nursery this week.
Obama nungara flatworms eat land snails and earthworms - and there were zero snails and near-zero earthworms at this location, which was unusual. I hope these flatworms don't spread to wild areas and go after our native snails. For more on Obama nungara, and their establishment in France:
The magazine version: https://theconversation.com/obama-nungara-how-a-flatworm-from-argentina-jumped-the-atlantic-and-invaded-france-131186
And the paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7007977/