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Time For a Bit of Salad! After a long dry spell the rain started this morning. The wetness brought out our Pacific Sideband. There were three of them out and about and grazing on the moss. Hard to know which one to “focus” on! Their mouths are located on the underside beneath the tentacles. Canada,Geotagged,Monadenia fidelis,Pacific sideband,Spring Click/tap to enlarge

Time For a Bit of Salad!

After a long dry spell the rain started this morning. The wetness brought out our Pacific Sideband. There were three of them out and about and grazing on the moss. Hard to know which one to “focus” on! Their mouths are located on the underside beneath the tentacles.

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    Christine Young
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    Nice tentacle shot! We were checking out some garden snails this afternoon - humming to them so they would come out of their shell. Sounds silly, but it works - or, at least I have convinced myself that it works ;P Posted 6 years ago
    1. View gary fast's profile
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      Hmmmm! Don’t know if my humming would work or not. This little guy did not need any encouragement at all.
      A Young Pacific Sideband Land Snail. This fellow was inside an upside down wheelbarrow until I turned the wheelbarrow over. It was quite comfortable travelling on my hand or anyone else’s. It was exploring! Canada,Geotagged,Monadenia fidelis,Pacific sideband,Spring
       Posted 6 years ago
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        Christine Young
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        Wow! Such a long body! The snails that I usually see are small, stubby, and require coaxing. Posted 6 years ago
        1. View gary fast's profile
          gary fast
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          This one seemed very “friendly”! Posted 6 years ago

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The Pacific sideband

"Monadenia fidelis", common name the Pacific sideband, is a medium-sized species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Monadeniidae. This species of snail creates and uses love darts.

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Similar species: Land Snails And Slugs
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Uploaded May 14, 2019. Captured May 14, 2019 11:55 in 315 Whaletown Rd, Whaletown, BC V0P 1Z0, Canada.
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  • E-M5MarkII
  • f/16.0
  • 1/15s
  • ISO1250
  • 60mm