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[daily-jelly]

Cyanea mjobergi

Image source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/317685399

[creatureimages]

love this animal. the oedipus

[razehider]

the ever-present Theba pisana has no respect for personal space and is more social than you'd think, so it's not uncommon to find them in funny Configurations™ like a little ring around a flower, sprinkled all over a big bush like berries, or in this case, using spanish broom stems to form a nice snail kebab

(September 5th, 2025)

[2shy]

[razehider]

is it ever gonna be legal to grab people who go "erm that's not a ladybug, it's an 🙄 Asian Lady Beetle 🙄" and ask them exactly what they mean by that and when they're about to answer we ignore them and flip them over and piledrive them

[razehider]

what family is harmonia axyridis in and what is its colloquial name. what do you count as a ladybug and why. why the tendency to emphasize the word asian. all questions you won't get to answer on account of the piledriver that will interrupt you

[drhoz]

Another harvestman with completely ridiculous chelicerae - Pantopsalis sp, on the side of the house where we're staying near Curio Bay, NZ

[snailkites]

surely not...

[creatureimages]

hello i just want to thank you for your velvet worm photos and videos. every time i look at their little legs walking along i feel like im going to burst into tears. very effective stress management for finals season. have you seen any more lately?

i'm so sorry i dont know how long this has been in my askbox without me checking it. i'll pass your kind words to the worms. haven't been seeing any lately (haven't been looking 😔). but i do have an sdd with a bunch of old videos of them so i might take those and turn them into a big gifpost for you at some point

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went to the hand doctor and when i showed her my finger she made a face and went "oh". when i told her i'm unemployed she said "great! more time for exercises"

(dislocation pics under the cut)

got it fixed but it's crooked and stiff months later so apparently i need to lock in or it'll become proper deformed

[creatureimages]

also i dislocated it slipping on a rock trying to get a better look at this hermit crab. many such cases

[creatureimages]

went to the hand doctor and when i showed her my finger she made a face and went "oh". when i told her i'm unemployed she said "great! more time for exercises"

(dislocation pics under the cut)

got it fixed but it's crooked and stiff months later so apparently i need to lock in or it'll become proper deformed

[creatureimages]

these guys were like 10 metres apart and theyre just. looking at me

[cnestus]

beetle pussy wizard

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[razehider]

empty threats don't bother me, but "i hope you find a lifer at half past eight in the evening with no external light source on you" is scary. it can happen. fortunately, this iberian solifuge (Gluvia dorsalis) turned out to be cuter in motion in a shitty blurry high ISO phone video than it would've been in any decent photos i couldn't have taken

(August 9th, 2025)

[zoestorm]

Hey I have a question for y'all.

From where you are right now, could you reach the nearest sea or ocean by foot in less than a day?

Yes

No

Voting ended onApr 30

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[luetta]

by robfarmerxyz

[creatureimages]

waugh

[jakeperalta]

not using AI genuinely feels like the rest of the world is experiencing some kind of mass amnesia. if someone says they never use it, the immediate response is that can't be true because "everyone" uses it to write their emails or answer their questions. saw a comment suggesting that not using chatgpt to write an essay is "like the 90s". girl I graduated in 2021 and we weren't doing that! how is it that everyone has suddenly forgotten that they were entirely capable of doing these things all by themselves for their entire lives up until the past few years!! am I going crazy!!!