Birder, Biologist, Bedoodler

Elaine T (they/them). Western US creatures natural history and art, mainly birds and bugs.

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BYOP (Bring Your Own Pants (To Eat)). Oniscus asellus, white skirted woodlouse.

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Brown-eyed primrose (Chylismia claviformis) in front of Ubehebe Crater in Death Valley National Park. January 6, 2024.

I got a new phone two days ago and immediately brought it road tripping, but I should offload photos from my old phone first.

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Happy Wet Beast Wednesday. My guy Snart be MOIST, enough that they second-guessed exploring outside their nice humid tub. (Cornu aspersum)

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Happy flat fuck Friday! Featuring many flat fellows of Oniscus asellus, the white-skirted or common shiny woodlouse.

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Wheeeeee airplane arms

(Armadillidium maculatum "chocolate zebra" isopod in shed)

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Happy Flat Fuck Friday! These skelliepods are horizontally magnificent. (Porcellio bolivari)

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I love my pet snail snart. The creature ever (Cornu aspersum)

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All of these pictures were taken just this past Monday. Logan Canyon, Utah, USA.

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Oops almost forgot but it's still Flat Fuck Friday here (Oniscus asellus)

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New isopod day for me! I just got 3 Porcellio bolivari, sometimes called "skeleton isopods", from the reptile expo nearby. Presenting Condyle, Lamina, and Lacuna. Kyle, Mina, and Kuna for short.

Thankfully, these ones are easy to sex, with the males having longer uropods than the females (see first pic, with female on left and male on right). Here's hoping they start breeding in the little Hillshire Farm tupperware I've set them up in for now.

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Now you see me, now you don't

(Armadillidae sp., "Cubaris Pak Chong")

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*extremely tiny baby voice* hello!

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Now you see me, now you don't

(Armadillidae sp., "Cubaris Pak Chong")

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Patches the pied zebra isopod has grown 2 mm longer and has only gotten handsomer! Top pic is May 2023, bottom pic is July 2023. Hopefully he'll sire more piebald babies.

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Some of the other guys in the pied zebra breeding tub are less flashy, and you wouldn't be able to tell that they're zebra isopods (Armadillidium maculatum) if you didn't know. I only separated this tub out in June, so it remains to be seen if the little babies in there will also develop funky markings.

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isopod espionage

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Did anyone else see the new ancient enormous whale? Obsessed

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And the pathetic little legs 😭 I think we should be working on bringing him back rather than woolly mammoths, because I wanna give him a good blubber slap (lovingly)

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Omg you know how gooby some geckos look head-on? Imagine... A tiny wee face in the middle of a fat orb. The useless little feet poking out on each side... I'm gonna need skeletal references asap

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BEAUTIFUL CHONKY BOY (perucetus colossus)

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a friend

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Flashback Friday to eight awesome tropical inverts (in no particular order), which I encountered this time last year in Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam.

Semislug, Megaustenia sp. / cockroach, Pseudoglomeris magnifica / dracula ant, Stigmatomma sp. / trapjaw ant, Odontomachus sp. / toothed ant, Odontoponera denticulata / Hasselt's spiny spider, Macracantha hasselti / huntsman spider, family Sparassidae / stick insect, order Phasmida

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I have zebra isopods cohabbing with powder oranges. One of them might outcompete the other eventually, but the Halloweeny contrast delights me.