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Cultivation => Composts => Topic started by: JohnnyD on April 14, 2024, 02:18:34 PM

Title: Found in leafmould
Post by: JohnnyD on April 14, 2024, 02:18:34 PM: Can anyone identify the attached pic please? JohnnyD
Title: Re: Found in leafmould
Post by: JohnnyD on April 14, 2024, 02:45:39 PM: It seems it is Henia vesuviana - so I am not much wiser ::) JohnnyD
Title: Re: Found in leafmould
Post by: Maggi Young on April 14, 2024, 05:39:05 PM: Nor I!! Looks vaguely familiar - but searching its name suggests it is a mainland European species .... so that's another puzzle!
Title: Re: Found in leafmould
Post by: partisangardener on April 15, 2024, 09:19:34 AM: I have read it is in the area of Greater London and in coastal areas fairly frequent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henia_vesuviana
Title: Re: Found in leafmould
Post by: Palustris on April 15, 2024, 09:34:41 AM: Frodsham is a fair distance from either London or the sea. Unless of course it swam up the Mersey and across Frodsham marshes.
Title: Re: Found in leafmould
Post by: ian mcdonald on April 15, 2024, 12:42:08 PM: Or was introduced with compost?
Title: Re: Found in leafmould
Post by: ashley on April 15, 2024, 12:49:48 PM: Quote from: ian mcdonald on April 15, 2024, 12:42:08 PM
Or was introduced with compost?

Australian flatworm Australoplana sanguinea came to my garden in potted plant(s) from a nursery, possibly in imported stock.
They established for a decade or so, but now seem to have died out again fortunately.
Title: Re: Found in leafmould
Post by: Maggi Young on April 15, 2024, 05:57:59 PM: Quote from: ian mcdonald on April 15, 2024, 12:42:08 PM
Or was introduced with compost?
Yes, much more likely to have come into the garden via a plant pot. It's how we got what we called the New Zealand Flatworm and various other pests, animal and plant based :-\ :'( We no longer have the flatworm, thankfully.