Incredible invertebrates

they lack backbones, but not beauty

[incredibleinvertebrates]

Tonicella lokii - "flame lined chiton"

These guys have 7 or 8 dorsal plates made of calcite that are held in a muscular girdle. Their mouth, anus, foot, and gills are all on it's underside.

Molluska Polyplacophora

[vhs-puppy]

Various Springtails

Photos taken in Millersville, MD 04/08/2022 Photography by Nisha Wolfe

[nippongoto]

オオシママドボタル

サキシママドボタルかも

ただ、デカイ。

His information ↓

https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%89%E3%83%9C%E3%82%BF%E3%83%AB

[otaharuo]

コンゴウフグ、Lactoria cornuta、12月16日、愛知県

[onenicebugperday]

Waxy planthopper, Cerogenes auricoma, Fulgoridae (Lanternbugs)

Found in Mexico and Central America, these bizarre-looking planthoppers are not afflicted with fungus! This species excretes white and yellow waxy filaments as a by-product of their sucrose-rich diet that build up over time and are thought to provide protection from predators and parasites. These filaments can reach lengths of over eight inches!

Photo 1 by geroherdez , 2 by carlosfunes37, 3 by alan_rockefeller, 4 by mariourrutia, 5 by alanfibio, 6 by diegoman, 7 by huracan, 8 by jmeerman, and 9-10 by diegoman

[psikonauti]

Stinging Nettle Slug Caterpillar (Cup Moth, Mahanta sp., Limacodidae)

[organicmatter]

Alipes multicostis photos

[onenicebugperday]

European black slug, Arion ater, Arionidae

Although it is native to Europe, this slug has spread to the United States, Australia, Canada, and possibly South America, where it is considered invasive and a danger especially to native plant life. Primarily black, this species also has color morphs including brown, white, yellow, and red.

Photo 1 by mlrosten, 2 by henrikbjerreso, 3 by manuel_marques, 4 by anasacuta, 5 by ellegaardsnatur, 6-7 by faetter, 8 by xinxane, and 9 (for scale) by kikster

[onenicebugperday]

Elegant conehead katydid, Moncheca elegans, found in Central and South America

Photo 1 by maomorningyip, 2-3 by chloe_and_trevor, 4-5 by entomophilo, 6 by allison_strass, and 7-10 by amazonmegadiversity

[onenicebugperday]

Cuckoo wasp, Chrysis semicincta, Chrysididae

Photographed in France by Frank Deschandol // Instagram

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

[cristalplanetheart]

[bogleech]

I love contemplating how actually scary this is. Nothing in horror movies affects me anymore but I get the most wonderful chills from the idea of these beautiful, haunting, mindless things just hovering in this murky water like a minefield for anyone foolish enough to go swimming or unlucky enough to fall in. How it’s still not as bad as being a fish small enough for them to paralyze and consume. How they regularly paralyze and consume fish but evolved before anything like a fish ever existed. A fish is such a complex creature that can see and think and navigate and be afraid but sometimes it touches these brainless, boneless, ghostly things that were just already there, millions of years sooner, and it dies and it never understands why that is. The thing that killed it and ate it doesn’t know either, it doesn’t know anything. It doesn’t have enough of a brain to even realize it has killed and eaten something. Some of its cells simply fired little harpoons into the cells of the other thing, and squirted deadly chemicals into them, and hauled up the paralyzed body to digest it. It’s a spider’s web without a spider but it still fills things with venom and eats them. :)

[a-book-of-creatures]

The best jellyfish are those that seem to trail off into forever. Like Chrysaora achlyos my beloved…

Images like that haunted me as a kid

[chilirasbora]

Black land crab | Gecarcinus ruricola

Photo credit: x, x, x

[lavender-melancholy]

Heliofungia actiniformis

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day

Always awesome to find buffalo treehoppers at the lights - this one is genus Stictocephala.

[onenicebugperday]

Tree millipede, Anadenobolus arboreus, Rhinocricidae

This arboreal species is found primarily in Puerto Rico, but also on some surrounding islands, and occasionally in Central America and northern South America.

Photo 1 by stenthesnake, 2 by willyburgos, 3 by elspethpierce, 4 by cullen, 5-7 by derick_gil, 8 by scott_stafford, 9 by carmen-sanchez7, and 10 by zlange123

[onenicebugperday]

Green tree snail, Leptopoma perlucidum, Cyclophoridae

Found from South Asia to Australia

Photo 1 by tzulunhung, 2 by chih-wei_jack_chang, 3 by shuchen_huang, 4 by suchihfen, 5 by blackdogto, 6 by abujudy, 7 by daintree_rainforest, 8 by damontighe, 9 by ahan88, and 10 by joniyang

[theverge]

World’s cutest male spider does embarrassing dance to impress cutest female spider.

[adorablespiders]

HOLY. SHIT.