Leonard Tennisson

[lennie-tennisson]

Flatworm facts

[battongg]

He just decided to give it his all😼

[rottso]

🌾lil mlp nextgen designs i updated. I lovveee applejack x coloratura personally, followed up by rarijack

oldest to youngest goes:

Lily Pad <- Peachy Keen <- Bluegrass

Bluegrass is a very talented (bluegrass 😝) singer, Peachy Keen an impressive horticulturalist, and Lily Pad is a passionate conservationist (focusing on wetlands)

I also had fun designing cutie marks? I never bother w them but I might actually start now lol

[6vcr]

train, 2020

[pansy-placebo]

Have any of you ever heard of the hummingbird moths we get in Britain?

So, I thought I saw a hummingbird last year. It was much bigger than a bug could be, I thought, and it hovered around flowers and looked like it had feathers.

I got pretty close but it was never still enough to see clearly. Then, when I told my parents they said "oh! it was probably a moth!" and I was baffled for a long time. Like, how could a moth look like and act so much like a hummingbird?

Until I googled "hummingbirds in the UK" and this fucker comes up:

Everyone, meet the hummingbird hawk-moth; one of the weirdest and coolest cases of convergent evolution on this planet.

This is the kinda thing I'd see in fiction and go "oooh cool, bug hummingbird! Wish we had those on earth!" But we do. We really do have them on earth!! Isn't that nuts?!?!?

[oddarette]

You are alone in a strange place. The murmurs of ghosts echo through the corridors. Instead of people there stand pools of water, isolated forever. A phone rings off in the distance. Do you answer?

[violetpony11]

Okay, but, why you gotta scruff her like that, Discord? 🤨

[end0skeletal-undead]

Hammerhead Flatworm (Bipalium sp.) by Bernard Dupont Niah Caves NP, Sarawak, Malaysia

Hammerhead flatworms are a genus of predatory land flatworms that feed on earthworms or mollusks.

[patheticmosasaur1]

tonight's invertebrate................pseudogeoplana reticulata

fun halloween fact! on every october many people get a sudden obsession with space and then they go missing after a few days¡

this unlucky helminth right here is one of many who were taken this year by the uncaring vastness of the cosmos. the image you see is what was last seen of them before they went missing

.............spookiness rating: 40.4% the stars also get bluer each year. what

photographed by José Grau de Puerto Montt (CC BY-SA 3.0)

this worm is very beautifully coloured!

[crevicedwelling]

hammerhead flatworms (Bipaliinae) are in my estimation among the most beautiful terrestrial animals, often sporting bright colors and striking patterns that advertise their toxicity.

bipaliines feed on either worms or land gastropods, tracking the slime trails of prey with their highly sensitive spade- or crescent-shaped head plate.

Southeast Asia is a hotspot for bipaliine diversity, and at least six species can be found in Singapore, all of which I managed to encounter this summer!

[merismo]

D:

[ishdaj]

Interlude 11h // one moment of weakness

My last commission of the current batch! It was lovely to work on a Worm fanart.

tip jar

[patheticmosasaur1]

today's invertebrate.................rhynchodemus bromelicola

she has a little snoot that she uses to smell and poke things, which is her primary way of sensing the world! it often gets a little uncomfortable (imagine being repeatedly touched by a wet noodle) but nobody gets mad at her because we all know that most of the time she can't see what she's touching. her eyes are a bit limited after all......

glorpiness rating: a worm???? om the string??? boioioioioioioing

photographed by thomas_oswald. link to original photos (iNaturalist)

[celesse]

Home sweet home 👻🧡

Now with music!

[onenicebugperday]

New Caledonian land planarian, Australopacifica sarasiniana, Geoplanidae

Like most land planarians, this species of flatworm is a predator of invertebrates such as slugs, snails, and worms. Found only in New Caledonia.

Photos 1-4 by damienbr, 5 by yoshitaka_tahara, and 6 by jeanro

[passionpeachy]

luna moth 🌙

[lazchance]

hello my dears... striped hammerhead worm today

this is one of those odd-looking creatures that are always exciting to find in the soil after rain. theyre slow moving and appear docile but are pretty efficient predators that can hunt living mollusks and earthworms.

when attacking their prey they use their sticky slime along with their muscular body to hold their prey captive before releasing digestive enzymes which break down the soft body of their prey... which they then absorb through the skin of their bodies. pretty metal for such a small and colourful little worm

slime trail (Diversibipalium rauchi)