COLLEMBOLA, DERMAPTERA, ISOPODS, MYRIAPODS & GASTROPODS - A diary of wildlife on Banstead Downs

springtails, earwigs, woodlice, centipedes, millipedes, slugs and snails

Common Striped Woodlouse [Philoscia muscorum]

Adult - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 24 Oct 2025

Common Striped Woodlouse [Philoscia muscorum]

Adult with two young at different growth stages; circled in blue a slender springtail, possibly the Shaggy Springtail (Orchesella villosa ?) - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 21 Nov 2025

Common Rough Woodlouse [Porcellio scaber]

P. scaber on a Postia sp.? bracket fungus, possibly P. subcaesia ‘Blueing Bracket’ - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 10 Dec 2025

Common Rough Woodlouse [Porcellio scaber]

Adult - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 14 Jul 2025

Common Rough Woodlouse [Porcellio scaber]

mixed age group of P. scaber on a dead birch trunk - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 13 Dec 2025

Boreal Yellow-headed Soil Centipede [Geophilus flavus]

G. flavus found under bark on a decomposing trunk, with Moss Springtail (Neanura muscorum), purplish-grey bottom right and other pale springtails bottom right and left centre – Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 24 Feb 2026

Common Pill Millipede [Glomeris marginata]

Adult - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 11 Jun 2021

Common Pill Millipede [Glomeris marginata]

adult Common Pill Millipede on decaying bark in leaf litter - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 03 Mar 2026

Common Pill Millipede [Glomeris marginata]

patterned juvenile Common Pill Millipede on decaying bark in leaf litter - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 02 Mar 2026

Blunt-tailed Snake Millipede [Cylindroiulus punctatus]

C. punctatus on inner surface of rotting tree bark – Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 17 Feb 2026

White-legged Snake Millipede [Tachypodoiulus niger]

White-legged Snake Millipede in bark crevice on tree trunk - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 02 Mar 2026

White-legged Snake Millipede [Tachypodoiulus niger]

White-legged Snake Millipede on dead trunk - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 06 Dec 2025

Brown Centipede [Lithobius forficatus]

Adult on underside of a rotting log – Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 15 Mar 2026

Common Flat-backed Millipede [Polydesmus angustus]

adult Common Pill Millipede on decaying bark in leaf litter - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 03 Mar 2026

Netted Slug [Deroceras reticulatum]

Netted Slug on bark in leaf litter - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 27 Feb 2026

Black Slug [Arion ater agg.]

Adult - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 24 May 2025

Darkface Arion [Arion distinctus ?]

A. distinctus? eating gills of a Glistening Inkcap mushroom – Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 02 Mar 2026

Orange-banded Arion [Arion fasciatus ?]

A. fasciatus? on decaying bark in leaf litter – Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 02 Mar 2026

Garden Slug [Arion hortensis]

young Garden Slug on dead trunk - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 06 Dec 2025

Hedgehog Slug [Arion intermedius ?]

A. intermedius? on decaying bark in leaf litter – Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 02 Mar 2026