Is your day really complete without seeing some velvet worm feet?
I found this excellent wee critter on the coast-to-coast field trip over the weekend for my Biological Diversity course at #LincolnUniversityNZ.
Its name is Ooperipatellus viridimaculatus.
I was looking at these photos again and I just noticed that one of them has what looks to be a nematode on the skin of the velvet worm. I looked again and found several other nematodes on the skin of this animal in my other photos. I've just posted this as a separate observation to #iNaturalist to see if I can learn more. Does anyone know about interactions between nematodes and velvet worms?
Here's another velvet worm from the same night walk. This one looks like it's waving.
Kia ora!
@zeborah 😄 That is an important question. I was about to say that, sadly, no, velvet worms do not have toebeans. But, then, looking again, it looks like they might be covered head-to-toe with hundreds of toebeans.
They're so weird.
@joncounts @zeborah Next time, can you please bring an ink pad for them to walk over so we can see some footprints? I imagine those would look cute. 😉
I'm obviously joking but it would be cool!
Jon Sullivan
Zeborah
Conny with a Y 
Lyn