evanesce 🐉🪲🐠

Invertober 2025 1. Japanese sea nettle (Chrysaora pacifica) 2. Red-banded leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea) 3. Giant green anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica) 4. Palmetto weevil (Rhynchophorus cruentatus) 5. Painted spiny lobster (Panulirus versicolor) 6. Buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) 7. Scaly foot gastropod (Chrysomallon squamiferum) 8. Bee-killer robber fly (Mallophora fautrix) 9. Flamboyant cuttlefish (Ascarosepion pfefferi) 10. Common earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) 11. Dark fishing spider (Dolomedes tenebrosus) 12. Pacific razor clam (Siliqua patula) 13. Banded sugar ant (Camponotus consobrinus) 14. Bobbit worm (Eunice aphroditois) 15. Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing (Ornithoptera alexandrae) ‪16. Giant isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) ‬ 17. Blue-lined flatworm (Pseudoceros concinnus) 18. Black & yellow mud dauber (Sceliphron caementarium) 19. Vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) 20. By-the-wind sailor (Velella velella) 21. Flame skimmer dragonfly (Libellula saturata) 22. Sea angel (Clione limacina) 23. Pink sand dunes tiger beetle (Cicindela albissima) 24. New Zealand mussel (Perna canaliculus) 25. House centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata) 26. Sea bunny (Jorunna parva) 27. American dog tick (Dermacentor variabilis) 28. Pearly green lacewing (Chrysopa perla) 29. Red sea urchin (Mesocentrotus franciscanus) 30. Christmas beetle (Anoplognathus pallidicollis) 31. Death’s-head hawk moth (Acherontia atropos)

The Invertober prompt list for 2025 is HERE! If you’re looking for an invert-themed art prompt list for the month of October, here it is 🦀🪲🐚💕 #sciart #invertober #invertober2025

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Like for the love of god there are so many lovely photos of our animals. Why is it so hard. I fear one day I will have to leave social media for good lest I become a cranky old geezer yelling at the proverbial social media cloud 24/7 lol

I like how people are making jokes about platypuses being classed as ‘women’ as a Diogenesian response to that One Author’s transphobic drivel, but. I’m pretty sure the image they keep using is a/ i. Or at least a render of some kind.
Guys can we not feed the Incorrect Animal issues on the internet

Please help the lovely Zee out if you can!! Check the thread for the donation link. 💖

I bought some field gear I’ve been meaning to get today too so I’m ready to Rumble

My research project has BEGUN 🥳 Unfortunately I’m crook and trying not to drip snot all over my literature review papers but I’m excited!!!

Congrats omg!!!! ;v;

Forgot to mention the book after all of that aldjfjsl, it’s called Where Song Began by Tim Low and everyone interested in Australian animals, birds and avian evolution should read it thankssss

Sorry for the depressing thread after being away for ages lol, I’m just having very strong feelings about birds and conservation right before bed…

As an invertebrate ecologist, the pain and frustration is immense. Mostly though, these stories always remind me of the last Kaua’i ‘ō’ō - the story of the last individual left in the world, calling for a mate who will never come forever haunts me.

I like recording quotes from books I read, especially if they’re moving or a fact I want to remember. This one though, it gut punches me every time I open my quotes page in my notebook. The tragedy of begging people to care about an animal that seems so insignificant, but means the world to you.

Time to rep The Shirt™️ gifted to me by @reneguybabord.bsky.social 🐛

Two smiling velvet worms on a pastel pink background. Long velvet ribbons are wrapped around their bodies. There are hearts and ribbon drawings on the background. Lovely atmosphere.

Velvet ribbon worm🎀

Extreme close-up of a Poduromorpha springtail sitting on rough, broken bark. The springtail is small, dark bluish gray, and absolutely covered in clusters of stiff, pale spines that make it look more like a weird burr than a bug. Its body is fat and squat, with stubby legs and antennae barely visible beneath the bumpy, armored surface. The lighting brings out every texture: bark fibers, spines, and tiny glints on the springtail’s surface. The background fades into a soft green blur, giving full attention to the strange, spiky little creature.

I love that Poduromorpha are called “plump” springtails. It’s perfect. Just look at this ridiculous little animal. What is going on here.

#Collembola #Invert #macrophotography 🪲🪳 🌿

Finally… it has been raining… it is colder… the fungi……. THE FUNGI IS COMING

A bright red net-winged beetle with black legs, antennae and a black patch on the top of the thorax, perched on a white bumpy wall. Lycostomis similis

An Amblypigid (arachnid) sitting on a mud wall. There is a small sprig of green plant in front of it. Possibly a Phrynichus sp.

A small colourful crab held by my hand. He has bright orange claws, pale purple legs, pale green eyes and a mottled carapace. Male. Species ID unconfirmed at this stage.

Close-up of a true katydid, likely from the Tribe Leptotettigini, although ID is unconfirmed. She is looking at the camera, perched on a stick.

A couple of my favourite invert photos from Sri Lanka! Check out all my photos here clumsyvelvetworms.tumblr.com/tagged/sri%2... - I still have to finish uploading them so my blog doesn't have all of them yet but they are queued!! 💖🇱🇰

ant #insectart

Deepsea angler fish are famous for their fearsome appearance, but they pose no real threat to humans. Some are larger, but they are usually small, less than 10 inches long. The males are much smaller and parasitic on the females.

A photograph of a velvet worm - an orange and purple-patterned invertebrate composed of many soft segments and tiny spined legs. The velvet worm has long, segmented antenna and a pair of organs on its head which squirt glue for prey capture.

A photograph of a velvet worm - an Blue and yellow-patterned invertebrate composed of many soft segments and tiny spined legs. The velvet worm has long, segmented antenna and a pair of organs on its head which squirt glue for prey capture.

Introducing New Zealand's latest Bug of the Year- the magnificent Ngāokeoke / Velvet Worm!

NZ has two genera: one lays eggs (Ooperipatellus, 1st photo) and another gives live birth (Peripatoides, 2nd). They also deposit sperm which burrow through their partner's skin, but that's another story! 🧪

He’s just so polite……….

Do you want any more Sri Lankan money? I’m over here atm so can save you some and send them haha

Fun Fact: we have native bees that sleep in the petals of one of our plants in the garden bed (Alogyne) 🥰 It’s actually too cute I can’t handle it lmao

Thank you!!!!!!! Keen to see as many bugs as possible....

Just gotta buy some new socks, sandals, and a white sheet for mothing, and I am all packed for Sri Lanka on Saturday 🫣

An alpine subspecies of Killamoth; huge, intelligent predators from the world of #Amphibia.

Their social structures show sophisticated intra-specific communication and co-operation, extending in one documented case into a alliance with their usual prey among the coastal subspecies!

Observe: artsy photos I took at one of work’s biodiversity offset sites which ran along some salt flats. There was uhh… just the front wheels/base/axel, some seat springs, ??? Where was the rest of the car??? Only god knows

A Painted Apple Moth (Orgyia anartoides) caterpillar sitting in the middle of the photo, on a rosebush branch.

Rosey Hyacinth Orchids (Dipodium roseum) in the bush.

🖌️🍎🦋🐛

Summer is such a sad time of year as a naturalist in Australia. The Gariwerd/Grampians and the Gurdies are both on fire at the moment - Gariwerd is such a special place ecologically, I’m devastated.. Hopefully they can reign the fire in asap

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