When I wrote the last piece I had seen A. triangulatus only a couple of times in my entire life, and not recently. It was when Arthurdendyus was still called Artioposthia triangulata. Then, on an expedition to find out what was eating my pansy buds, I found one among assorted slugs, woodlice, millipedes and ground beetles under a plastic basin. It was curled up like a miniature slice of frilly edged, grey Swiss roll, about a centimeter and a half in diameter and with a dark filling. On paper on the kitchen table it uncurled. It extended its anterior (front) end, then its whole body, becoming a fast moving, narrow, flat band perhaps ten centimeters long. Its dorsal (upper) surface looked black, but was lighter at the edges. Its ventral surface was grey with numerous dark spots concentrated at the sides.
Under a second plastic basin, which was sitting on damp moss that had grown over the tarmac, I found another five. They are very well camouflaged. Sometimes only a thin slick of glistening mucus betrays them. Since early April I have found twelve, and not a single earthworm.
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