Dr Kym Abrams

Sagittal cut. I love how you can see the antennal nerve. Also the brain is very cool.

Transversal cut.

I love visual science! Made these today.
What you can see are two cross-sections of an Onychophore from different angles.

6 bad doodles with text under each one. horseshoe crab is literally the animal horseshoe crab. shoehorse crab is a crab riding a shoe, cowboy style. crabshoe horse is a horse wearing literal crabs as shoes. shoecrab horse is a horse telling a crab to go away. crabhorse shoe is a pair of shoes, left one crab shaped, right one horse shaped. horsecrab shoe is literally the same pair of shoes, flipped.

#InvertebrateShitposting as per @joabaldwin.com's request

Did you know gum blossoms don't just attract bees - Australia's eucalypts rely on a huge range of species for pollination!

Stay tuned for more stories about #OurEucalyptHome in the lead up to National Eucalypt Day on March 23rd! Cartoon in collaboration with @eucalyptaus.bsky.social!

"Common" names are a menace 😅

Looks like we're doing a parasite- themed zodiac takeover. Where are our parasitologists at? #invertebrates 🪲🕷🪱🦑🦀🪼

We can only hope!
Ox Tongue (or Tongue Worm): Balanoglossus, a type of hemichordate (marine worm) whose collar shape resembles an ox tongue. --> exhibit A, thanks Google

Rat-tailed maggots! That's a keeper 😄. this game is fun

Dog flea 😅
Pretty sure there'll be a quirky parasite for all of these taxa.
Alternatively, pick a red invertebrate for each? E.g. red velvet mite, ladybug etc

This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes. These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals. Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests. Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!

Bees 🐝

A herd of zebras

Have you herd? 🦓 We've just published the GBIF quarterly global and country analytics reports!

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Me too! Definitely high on my wishlist

Imagine seeing them! They should just rename it Crab Island

Spectacular 'sea of red' as millions of baby crabs clamber up island beaches Wildlife officials on Christmas Island, the remote territory 2,600 kilometres north-west of Perth, are welcoming the final chapter of its famous red crab migration — the return to shore of millions of...

Wonderful time of the year - "The crab horde will now move inland to the jungle"

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

It's from the 1800s and probably written on a stone tablet hidden in a mysterious tomb 😃

🗣️ A short extract about our world’s butterflies of the night… 🦋 🌒

#NatureWithin #TeamMoth

Thanks Franz but I'm sorry to say I don't know the meaning 😅. I'll see if I can track down the original paper, which might explain how the name was formed. I hope Moss' publishes this book because I bet it would be the first kid's book to include a bathynellacean or syncarid!

Postdoc job: Insecticide resistance genomics, Australia.

Bats - working the graveyard shift - Value in nature Emerging from their cavernous roosts after most of us have retired for the evening, bats are among the most mysterious and misunderstood mammals. Infamous for their rabid (fact check: <1%...

My latest 'Value in nature' post celebrates the many valuable ecological services provided by bats, while calling attention to various threats to their populations.

mscaterino.pika.page/posts/bats-w...

#biodiversity #nature 🌐

This large flower crab spider, found across Eurasia and North America. is a common sight upon flowers. It' s commonly known for its ability to change color from white to yellow. helping it to blend on plants to embush preys. Size : around 8 mm in length Time period : holocene (present day) Living status : Least concern/near threatened The specimen draw is a large white crab flower spider with some red lines, with its legs widely opened.

What time is it ? It’s #Cheliceratime !
For the first entry of cheliceratime, let’s start with a classic : Misumena vatia, aka the goldenrod crab spider!
#spider #arachnid #chelicerate #arthropod

All the basic infos are here but if you want to lean more there’s more below !⬇️

Boosting to #SciArt

Two new species of bird-dropping crab spiders, from the Philippines and Malaysia, are diagnosed, illustrated and described. See more here: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#biodiversity #spiders #taxonomy

A watercolour painting of a Christmas beetle

Finally found a gold Christmas beetle, so of course I had to paint him!

#christmas #art #watercolor #watercolour #bugart #beetle #insectart

I like this idea but a lot of syncarids look so much alike, it'll be interesting to see if people get bored 😅. Mostly line drawings too but let's see if we can create some obscure crustacean connoisseurs 😁

It's that wonderful time of the year- when we celebrate #Crustmas!

Days 2-24 can just pack up and go home 😆

You have lots of the stygobiontic bathynellaceans though and still many new species being found and described 🙂

Omg this is Christmas for me!

Thanks to @franzanth.bsky.social for drawing my attention to this wonderful post. Look at those gorgeous, shiny schizomid babies! Many arachnids are great moms 😍

Very grateful that Wisdom appears to be on track to outlive me, so I'll never have to experience a November without this annual message

Trioza urticae

Trioza urticae.

#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Triozidae #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem