Update: post-molted spidy, she looks even prettier now
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almost home
Sade Olutola

Kiana Khansmith
One Nice Bug Per Day
Peter Solarz
DEAR READER
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Aqua Utopia|海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
Monterey Bay Aquarium

oozey mess
d e v o n
will byers stan first human second
wallacepolsom

Discoholic 🪩
NASA
Three Goblin Art

titsay
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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Update: post-molted spidy, she looks even prettier now
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Nhandu chromatus FH2
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Chromatopelma cyanopubescens
Violet molted a week ago 💜
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Vampire amoeba
Giant hermit crab (Petrochirus diogenes)
This specimen is relatively small. P. diogenes is the world’s second-largest hermit crab species, growing large enough to inhabit a full sized queen conch shell and beaten only by the terrestrial coconut crab, which is a hermit crab that stops using shells when it matures.
I can only assume that the the “diogenes” in its name comes from some parallel drawn between the hermit crab’s shell and the philosopher’s habit of sleeping in a large jar.
(Florida, 2/27/21)
Today I learned oaks can talk with one another and collectively decide not make acorns for an entire year to try and starve as many squirrels as they can so next year’s acorns will have a higher chance of turning into trees, and my entire understanding of the world just shifted a little.
コヤナギウミウシ Janolus toyamensis (Baba & Abe, 1970)
This is going to be an extremely niche post but I need to complain about this useless node on a dichotomous key for rotifers.
Key: If it looks like a collotheca then it is a collotheca!
Me: Great, but if I knew what a collotheca looked like I wouldn't be using this key.
Key: if it doesn't look like a collotheca it's something else!
Me: 🙃🙃🙃
this spot is my favourite each year