Rainbow Days

Rain is seldom welcomed on a field trip. But without rain, there wouldn't be rainbows...

Despite the series of showers, the Slug Hunters were out in force. Ivy, Chay Hoon and Han Peng as usual, reliably scared up a few special finds. Some seldom-seen nudibranchs (top left Bornella sp., and bottom right Gymnodoris sp.), a never-seen before flatworm (probably some sort of Pseudoceros sp.).

And of course, when we get bored (e.g., when waiting for the rain to let up), we just stick a whole bunch of the plentiful green sap-sucking slugs (Elysia sp.) in a pot and wait for something to happen. From previous experience, in close proximity, these hermaphrodite slugs generally start...err...mating. Each inseminating the other! We hope it was somewhat consensual. This time we managed to get quite good shots of some Real Action.

Being slugs though, it's all very slow and sedate...