A dark gray tank top with neon orange lettering: "Hot Void" is on top and "Summer" is below it. Void has gray letters and a bold orange outline.

Be the hottest void on the beach this summer.

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Today is Lou’s birthday 🎂
She’s a whole year old 🥹

#pigeonsky #birdsky

Squid swing by for a peek.
@schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 904 #DesigningtheFuture3 #MarineLife

I got up on time and got to see an indigo bunting up close and personal! Worth it! Awesome event by Jefferson Co Greenway

Photo of a bright orange solitary bee on some brown grey dirt, little droplets on her because i was watering

today is an #invertebrate blessed day, because I just saw this diva looking for a nice corner in the garden

anyone knows what solitary/mining bee this is?

A close up of Octopoteuthis deletron swimming in a strange pose. It facing away from the camera, with its arms are raised up and back over its mantle, making a sideways U shape. Its fins are are wrapped around its mantle. You can clear see the zigzag row of little white hooks on its arms and the white photophores on the tips of its arms. The photophores have been curved. The squid is orange.

A Schoolmaster Armhook Squid (Berryteuthis magister) swimming above the sea floor with its limbs swung back. There is some ink in the water as the squid recently inked. All eight arms and its two tentacles are swung back. Its arms have two rows of hooks that are visible, with the two tentacle having no hooks. The squid's beak if clearly visible as none of its limbs are blocking it. It has a large mantle with two large fins on the end half of the mantle. The squid has an orange colour with white on the underside. The sea floor is rocky with lots of round rocks, and it is about 65 m below the surface.

A close up of a warty squid's (Onykia robsoni) hooks. The image covers about 3.5 cm. Its a bunch of hooks coming out of a squid's limb. They seem to have a fleshy sheath. The arm is white and orange.

The hooks on the tentacle club of a colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni). There are several hooks in two rows poking out of fleshy sheaths. These hooks can rotate and each row flanked by a row of tiny, marginal suckers. The arm is a mix of off white and desaturated slightly purplish red

Many squid species have hooks on their arms, tentacles or both. These hooks are used to help grab and hold onto their prey. I definitely wouldn't want to be on the business end of one of these squid!

What's even more amazing is this adaptation shows up in several different squid families!

A small pauropod with amber-colored dorsal plates, 9 short pale stubby legs, and a bright white body Lays on its side on a piece of leaf.

This is the SEVENTH pauropod from this leaf litter sample and it's only been running a few days. A get for the record books, people. Genus is Eurypauropus, size is like...1.5 mm.

Josephiella leaf and stem galls

Josephiella manana

Gibsonoma kuewa

The Chinese banyan stem gall first found in Hawaii in 2012 finally has a name! Meet Josephiella manana, and its associate Gibsonoma kuewa. Fun small project with @kmagnacca.bsky.social in sorting out some of these introduced micro wasps of Hawaii. Link to paper: tinyurl.com/ych93swd

silly digital #SciArt doodle of the underbelly of two horseshoe crabs wearing t-shirt, the left one is completely covered in a black t-shirt that says "WOMEN WANT ME MOLLUSKS FEAR ME" and the other one has 8 little hand holes for 8 little legs in a red t-shirt that says "CLAMS <3", at the bottom is the side view of both t-shirts. on the top the text says :how would a horseshoe crab wear a t-shirt?"

consider

Ordovician doodles

One of Ireland's less common butterflies, the green hairstreak, in a rewilding part of the farm yesterday.

Rewilding isn't just about getting more trees and forests back, but increasing diversity and abundance of *all* our natural species and ecosystems.

Photo of a number of Cladonia lichens that look like golf tees with the tops ringed in red blobs.

Cladonia lichens. #Newfoundland, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Digital illustration of a rhinoceros beetle with gold legs and a delft blue pattern shell

Bug I saw in a dream once
#art

Tava preparado pra parar de postar coisa nas redes por um tempo mas n me aguentei com essa, terminei esse desenho e curti mt o processo

There are horseshoe crabs decorated with cherry blossoms. It feels soft and spring-like.

Cherry blossom horseshoe crab 🌸

My melanistic jeweled lacerta, a jet black lizard.

Oh hi

The lizard posts will continue until morale improves.

A tiny yellow sea slug with adorable little eyes peeking out 🫧

Because it’s so small, it’s easy to overlook even when it’s right there on the shore.

A deadnettle plant (Lamium sp.) with green and reddish-purple leaves and small, pink flowers; the whole plant is maybe an inch tall. It is surrounded by even smaller groundcover and leaning over a paving stone.

A small, pale blue flower (Veronica persica) with darker blue veins on the petals; it is less than a centimeter across, and nestled into grass much taller than it.

Two small, pale blue flowers (Veronica persica) with darker blue veins on the petals, each less than a centimeter across, using a patch of dead grass to climb taller than the surrounding live grass.

Tis the season for teeny wildflowers!

A small East Pacific Red Octopus (Octopus rubescens) in a clear tupperware container. Its arms are extended in all directions and have their tips curled. The octopus has an orange colour.

"Bartender, three measures of sea water, one measure of tiny octopus."

🐙📷rlacroix (www.inaturalist.ca/observations...)

A photo of 4 rectangular shaped embroidered iron-on patches featuring bright colors and different invertebrates + text. From top to bottom, there is a dark blue “Nudibranch Admirer” patch with sea slugs, a teal blue “I Love Jumping Spiders” patch with peacock jumping spiders, a light orange “Awed by Isopods” with different isopods, and light blue “#1 Bug Enthusiast” with true bugs.

New iron-on patches for invertebrate lovers are now available! 🐛❤️

available here: shop.fossilforager.art

Let me know in the comments which invertebrate or creature patches you’d like to see from me next! 🪳

You know what, I *would* like to be under the sea, in an octopus's garden, in the shade.

Amphibolips megalokokka

Amphibolips idiopteryx

Amphibolips zapoteco

Amphibolips darioi

Meet some brand new oak apple galls from Mexico! We described five new Amphibolips species, including A. megakokka which produces the largest known gall by a single wasp in the Americas (>11cm in diameter).

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A Broadclub Cuttlefish (Ascarosepion latimanus) floating. It has a deep yellow colour with some dark brown spots and lines, and off white on the bottom of its mantle, so it looks kind of like a banana. Its two centre arms are raised and point forward, with the tips pointed curling down. Its other arms are going down with their tips curving inward.

He looks like a banana

🍌🦑📷 Steve Cappell (www.inaturalist.ca/observations...)

When I post a crab photo, people with crab icons like it.
When I post squid, the squid people show up.
And for sea slugs… the sea slug people.

…am I underwater or something?

now THIS is CEPHALOPODRACING Nautiloids edited onto that star wars meme

Do we know what's going on with that "nodding" behavior? Is it intentional or just being bobbled around by currents?

We brake for nautilus!

“We usually stopped what we were doing whenever we saw nautilus, b/c they are such amazing animals to watch,” said #VisioningCoralSea Chief Scientist Dr. Robin Beaman of James Cook University. This enigmatic cephalopod navigated the depths before dinosaurs roamed the Earth!

Happy Aries Season

X-rays of fish with coloured counters labelling some bones and fin rays.

Thank you #FijiSci for helping me keep count.