Bell

meows and hits blunt

[jjcinnajj]

[lolcatsaestheticdump]

[stimboardboy]

spinning my little pony keychain

[bingusfinger]

I was bored in class

[crevicedwelling]

cucumber dinner today

[clothjects]

nursary’s end capitalist earth tee / W&LT knitted doll revolution long sleeve tee

[lornandleveled]

[crevicedwelling]

I met some relatives of my beloved leatherleaf slugs in the mangroves of Singapore, the onch slugs! they’re perhaps some of the slowest-moving animals I’ve ever encountered; this is one in a hurry:

the species pictured is a Platevindex, which are particularly interesting to me since their backs are studded with extra eyes! the dorsal papillae each have a little black dot that’s a photoreceptor, which helps the slug detect changes in light exposure.

onchidiids are marine animals, living on costal rocks and in mangroves, but breathe air and spend much of their time out of the water. like the leatherleafs, they’ve got a dry, tough hide that maintains water balance, but Platevindex takes that to an extreme—when I picked one up, it felt like a vulcanized rubber tire!

[barksbog]

PIPA PIPA

removeable Baby

silly fingers

large!

Holes

she comes with three (3) free baby

flat fuck

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adopt a little freak and/or her spicy nungets today!

barks-bog.com

[markscherz]

Bark has outdone themselves again. This is truly spectacular, and if I had research funds to misappropriate, you better believe I’d be buying one of these beautiful ladies right now.

[herpsandbirds]

velvet worms <3

Phylum Onychophora... indeed. :3

Blue Velvet Worm (Euperipatoides sp.), family Peripatopsidae, Mt. Zero, Taravale Sanctuary, Paluma Range, Queensland, Australia

photograph by Stephen Zozaya

Red Velvet Worm (Peripatus solorzanoi), family Peripatidae, Guayacán Rainforest Reserve, Costa Rica

photograph via: Guayacán Rainforest Reserve

White Cave Velvet Worm (Peripatopsis alba), family Peripetopsidae, known only from two cave systems on Table Mountain, South Africa

photograph by Rodrigo Ferreira

Also, check out this video:

This Worm Uses a "Silly String of Death" | National Geographic (youtube.com)

[moths-daily]

Moth Of The Day #297

Automeris larra

From the saturniidae family. They can be found in South America.

Image sources: [1] [2]

[crevicedwelling]

fluorescence

(Centruroides gracilis, Cynortoides quadrispinosa, Pseudospirobolellus avernus)

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a contender for the most beautiful snail I’ve met: this exquisite Helicina from Costa Rica, which was delightfully abundant where I found it.

at only around 7-8mm long, they would glide around on green leaves like little jewels. I’m happier now knowing that these exist in the world

[crevicedwelling]

if you look closely, you’ll notice that it has only one set of tentacles, which lack eyes; the eyes are situated at their base. this hints that the fact that helicinids are distantly related to other land snails (who’ve got the familiar eyestalk pair + oral tentacle pair arrangement) and are instead closer to marine and freshwater snails like nerites and some limpets—they convergently evolved to come on land, and I’m so glad they did!

[supermariomamafucker]

foods ive been into lately

[windup-angel]

fucked up in the crib eating jeffrey

[handmade-by-me]

"little schemer", hand-punched, 2023

7.5" x 5.5"

[herpsandbirds]

Egg mass of the Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum), family Ambystomatidae, eastern U.S.

The egg mass is greenish, because of the presence of an alga (Oophila amblystomatis) that only grows in the egg masses of Spotted Salamanders. This alga feeds off of carbon dioxide produced by the embryos/larvae, and provides the embryos with oxygen, in turn.

photograph by Brad M. Glorioso

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