🐌 Critter Fact of the Day #21
Snails have thousands of tiny teeth on their tongues. It’s called a radula, and it works like a microscopic cheese grater. #snailfacts #invertlove #exoticpets

🦗 Critter Fact of the Day #20
Crickets have ears on their knees. Technically their front legs, but still. Nature got creative with that one. #crickets #invertlove #exoticpets

A single medium pink wild rose flower, seen partly from the side, over a couple of its multi leaflet compound leaves,. mid-summer green, with some light water marks- maybe where rain has mixed with road dust.. In the centre of the flower are beetles, seeming to enjoy on another's company a lot-- to one side 5 reddish brown beetles are stacked one on top of another, to the other side a slightly larger black (with legs the same reddish as the others) longer antennaed beetle is on top of another we can't see well behind the stamens of the rose, it appears to have a light area on its upper body.

closer crop of same photo so that we can see the beetles described in previous alt text more closely

From July 01 #WildflowerWednesday #RoseWednesday Roses are a symbol of love to some- but hopefully not in the quite the same way- as for these #beetles ! #WildRose Rosa acicularis and there may be a couple of different kinds of beetles? #insects #InvertLove #NativePlants #nature 🌿🐞