new type of animal they're testing out

they call me haze. i like entomology, sad videogames, and loud horrible music. sometimes i witness beasts

[hotvampireadjacent]

Honestly if we didn’t share the planet with funny little animals I would have fucking lost it years ago

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Occasional Day

I am not sure yet what species this micro moth is, but the photo was so cute, I wanted to share.

[great-and-small]

Video of a crab where nothing happens

[etchif]

I'm on it.

[shalmonsdraws]

no

[transparentfossil]

2.4" Spiny Ceratarges Trilobite - Zireg, Morocco

[every-day-creechur]

Tyloderma capitale

A species of hidden snout weevil found in North America.

image by Justin Williams

[textless]

[echinoderm-of-the-day]

Neoferdina insolita

Image source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69161328

[daily-jelly]

Pseudorhiza haeckeli

Image source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/335896433

[porcelain-dollbones]

snakes really make you appreciate how gross mammals really are. squamates are very dry and clean

[porcelain-dollbones]

a bird is a kind of reptile that has learned to be yucky.

[northerlyy]

Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle (Propylea quatuordecimpunctata), female, taken July 9, 2026, in Massachusetts, US

A gorgeous yellow ladybug perched on the underside of some white flowers, reaching for aphids and looking radiant in the sunlight! This is yet another introduced ladybug species, ferried in on agriculture shipments from Europe, though they were intentionally introduced to regions of North America in the late 1900s as means of invasive species control due to their strict aphid diet. Despite the introductions, lab-reared populations seem to have a high failure rate in the wild, so a majority of wild populations can be attributed to accidental introductions. They're quite small, though about average size for a ladybug, and very, very beautiful!

[inatherps]

Iberian Frog (Rana iberica)

Observed by mythagos, CC BY-NC

[pixel655]

A couple of blue paintings (Acrylic on paper)

[inatarachnids]

Northern Black Widow (Latrodectus variolus)

Observed by lantinantoine, CC BY-NC

[t4trout]

SHOW THE BABY HORSESHOE CRABS PLEASE

standard disclaimer not to take HSC eggs home; they are a vital protein source for many migrating birds and require a very specific setup to raise!! with that being said, our table of babies:

and for comparison, one we’ve raised up for about three or so years now:

most we release, some we trade to other permitted education centers and aquariums, and a couple we raise for our touch tanks!! :)

[sendentaryworm]

Gymnothorax rueppelliae McClelland, 1844

Puppy noodle....

This guy kept looking at me while I was trying to take macro shots of a coral crab from across his house.