rainbow art on a black background of a tardigrade with sunglasses, a glass and alcohol bottle, with the text "partigrade" above it.

third day of #InverteFest have the winner of this year's #InvertebrateOfTheYear the tardigrade/water bear/dugoživac/party animal 🍸

Dark Edged Bee-Fly, Essex, April 2025 - short listed for @theguardian.com #invertebrateoftheyear (but didn't win) - a fascinating insect all the same

as a #tardigrade species has been voted #InvertebrateOfTheYear , #CurrentBiology have plugged my recent feature about them on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DIQmslDMwJT/

fine, FINE, congrats on the water bear, but my beefly was ROBBED!

#InvertebrateOfTheYear #invertebrates #SciArt

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A tardigrade has just been voted #InvertebrateOfTheYear: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/0... #science #ecology #invertebrates.

See also my latest piece on #tardigrades […]

It’s heroic, hardy and less than a millimetre long: meet the 2025 invertebrate of the year | Patrick Barkham Guardian readers around the world voted in the this year’s contest, but which creature won, asks natural history writer Patrick Barkham

The hardy cute #tardigrade is voted the Guardian's "Invertebrate of the Year" Hail the microscopic! #InvertebrateOfTheYear #mosspiglet #waterbear www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s heroic, hardy and less than a millimetre long: meet the 2025 invertebrate of the year | Patrick Barkham Guardian readers around the world voted in the this year’s contest, but which creature won, asks natural history writer Patrick Barkham

Was my second choice! #invertebrateoftheyear the tardigrade/mosspiglet/water bear
An astonishing animal group
& I agree @patrickbarkham.bsky.social "something happens when we start sharing more of these spineless stories"
People start to look..
@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BEE 🐝 FLY 🪰
BEE 🐝 FLY 🪰

#BeeFlyWatch #SciArt #InvertebrateOfTheYear

The secret to finding one of the most endangered bumblebees in the US? Dogs Experts are desperate to analyse rusty patched bumblebee nests for information that might help save them. But they are extremely hard to find – unless you’re a trained conservation canine

OK - so the rusty-patched bumblebee looks a fine creature - the dogs all look very fine but have spines

#InvertebrateOfTheYear

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Invertebrate of the year 2025: vote for your favourite Since February we’ve gone in search of the invertebrate of the year. Now it’s your chance to choose

Vote! Vote - for The Great Fen Raft Spider!

Most glorious of creatures - can walk on water; carries its eggs in a self-made silken sac then builds a nursery for them when they hatch

Vote for #spiders 🕷️

Vote Great Fen Raft Spider!

#InvertebrateOfTheYear

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So many of the #GOP spring to mind www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/02/... Susan Collins? Lindsay Graham? Rafael Cruz? Little Marco…just so many potential winners #invertebrateoftheyear

Vote today for The Guardian's "Invertebrate of the Year" ... #TheGuardian #InvertebrateOfTheYear #invertebrates #rotifer www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Invertebrate of the year 2025: vote for your favourite Since February we’ve gone in search of the invertebrate of the year. Now it’s your chance to choose

It's open! #invertebrateoftheyear... Go vote....
😕 But how do I choose? ❎🐌🦋🐛🐜🐝🪲🐞🦗🪳🕷️🕸️🦂🦟🪰🪱🪼🦀🦞🦐🐚🐙🪸
@theguardian.com
@bibivanderzee.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...?

All-female and able to survive 24,000 years on ice: all hail the resilient rotifer Tiny aquatic animal can also withstand desiccation, radiation and extreme heat, and reproduces asexually

You can vote for The Guardian's #InvertebrateOfTheYear and do check out the all-female #BdelloidRotifer: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nominate your invertebrate species of the year We’re asking readers from around the world to nominate their favourite spineless species for our second Invertebrate of the Year competition

I feel like there's a #joke here, as #TheGuardian closes out its second annual showcase of species shortlisted for #InvertebrateOfTheYear: Is it the Gippsland #Earthworm, or the #Flamboyant #Cuttlefish? The #Tongue-biting #Louse? Does it crawl the banks of the #Potomac? Who knows? #winner #staytuned

‘A symbol of hope’: environmentalists choose their favourite invertebrates Politicians, campaigners and charity workers make the case for their top picks, from bumblebees to blue beetles

From the humble bumblebee to the spiky yellow woodlouse, The Guardian asks for your favourite invertebrates 🐝

@theguardian.com's voting for #InvertebrateOfTheYear starts from midday 2-4 April.

Read more and share your favourite #invertebrates 🔽

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

All-female and able to survive 24,000 years on ice: all hail the resilient rotifer Tiny aquatic animal can also withstand desiccation, radiation and extreme heat, and reproduces asexually

I've nominated the bdelloid rotifer for The Guardian's "Invertebrate of the Year" and out of over 2000 nominations it got shortlisted... WOOHOO! Go see and vote: #InvertebrateOfTheYear #TheGuardian #bdelloid #rotifer www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So many to choose from! My nomination for #InvertebrateOfTheYear is Marco Rubio. He definitely lacks a backbone.

I'm loving the run-up to the Guardian's #InvertebrateOfTheYear vote, with people passionately advocating for their favourite invertebrate. A much-needed focus on these vital, often beautiful and weird creatures.

‘Lego and tardigrades’: when humans finally destroy the world, what will remain? Milnesium tardigradum is only 0.5mm long and has survived all five great extinction events – plus it’s cute

Of the announced candidates for #InvertebrateOfTheYear I'm currently supporting tardigrade!

We all know they have cool traits like going into space and reviving (ours were fine alone for months of covid), and are everywhere. But I love them because they are adorable 😍

Vote tardigrade April 2-4! 🧪

‘A symbol of hope’: environmentalists choose their favourite invertebrates Politicians, campaigners and charity workers make the case for their top picks, from bumblebees to blue beetles

‘A symbol of hope’: environmentalists choose their favourite invertebrates. I'm with @davegoulson.bsky.social the Hairy Footed Flower bee.. 👌
And I've big soft spot for the Tiger Beetle - good choice too Nadia Shaikh. Get ready to vote #invertebrateoftheyear www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Here’s a clip of a Dark-edged Bee-fly I took a couple of years ago.

Amazing creature.

#Nature #InvertebrateOfTheYear

‘The fluffy flying narwhal… a pollinator with a dark side.’

‘Harbinger of spring’ Bombylius major, the dark-edged bee-fly.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#insects #InvertebrateoftheYear

EXCELLENT! BUGLORDS REJOICE!

#invertebrates #InvertebrateOfTheYear #SciArt

Megascolides australis #GiantGippslandEarthworm (www.theguardian.com/environment/...) oftwel een worm van 3(!) meter.....
#InvertebrateOfTheYear

‘About time they got some credit’: why hoverflies are an underappreciated insect Prof Dave Goulson is one of the world’s foremost experts on insects. But there’s a special place in his heart for hoverflies, one of the prettiest flies around. Here he explains why we should nominate...

Lovely piece here by @davegoulson.bsky.social in praise of hoverflies
#Insects
#InvertebrateoftheYear

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why do we think of beavers not beetles when it comes to rewilding? 🪲
The @guardian is running a competition to celebrate your favourite creepy crawlies and all their hard work!

‼️Closes 4th March! Find more info here: buff.ly/3F0hWaM

#rewilding #InvertebrateOfTheYear