Ocean Related Sideblog

Main is @illuminatireject :) This will mostly be reblogs! I will also be posting isopods here, I know it doesn’t make a lot of sense <3 ✉ 🤿

[jaubaius]

[ewegenia]

something is wrong with my hamster

[bugthingsdaily]

Today's bug thing is this cicada tattoo by wild.isley.tattoo!

[thesingingbullfrog]

Katydids are pretty cool.

[onenicebugperday]

Please note the dark oval spot just below the “knee” joint on the front leg! That’s the tympanum or tympanal organ, the organ katydids use to hear! Gotta hear those lovely mating calls.

[forked-tongue-blasphemer]

Isopod

British Library, Harley MS 3244, c. 1236-1250, folio 64r

[introspectres]

moray eel + skeleton for a printmaking class

[dimetrodone]

Mesmerized by the aba aba knifefish right now

[dimetrodone]

These guys are also notoriously aggressive fish, reach over a meter long, and have a mouth full of sharp teeth.

But also their body is silly.

[despazito]

Some kind of shrew

[psalidodont]

characins and such from Argentina

psalidodon anistisi

holosthesthes pequira

aphyocharax anisitsi

characidium rachovii

mylossoma duriventre

pseudocorynopoma doriae

poptella paraguayensis

[memetrash-coyote]

I don't have a lot of In Progress shots of this bag, but this shrimp bag was a delight to make. I like its size, and this red leather is fun (it's like the blue leather I used with the sting ray)

[passsionfish]

@wynnibee @just-a-drawing-bean I summon thee shrimplers to gaze upon this whimsical bag

[wszczebrzyszynie]

atak na @selvenus

[onenicebugperday]

Colonial pseudoscorpion, Paratemnoides nidificator, Atemnidae

Paratemnoides nidificator is a widely-distributed species of neotropic pseudoscorpion. It lives in colonies and is one of only a few species of arachnids known to engage in complex social behavior. Read more here.

Photo 1 by José Roberto Peruca, 2-4 by celiomoura, and 5 (for scale) by diegoferreira

[onenicebugperday]

Puerto Rican velvet worm, Peripatus juanensis, Peripatidae

Photographed in Puerto Rico by wesgapp

[rupertbbare]

Now available in Blue Raspberry!

Indigo Velvet Worm aka Ngaokeoke (Peripatus indigo)

[cherripinko]

Part of my homework to do a still life value and I choose this kind of jumping spider.

They’re called vampire jumping spiders and their diet consists exclusively of feeding on female mosquitoes that have consumed human or animal blood

[best-isopod]

These are my kids❤️❤️❤️ micheal jicheal richeal ticheal ficheal wicheal picheal bicycle dicheal sicheal and jo clovery, etc❤️❤️❤️ I forgit the others names❤️❤️❤️

[snototter]

A luna moth (Actias luna) in New York, USA

by Alex Roukis

[al-the-alien]

i love it when fish are like

[ewegenia]

something is wrong with my hamster