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Marlène Thiery  Opalized Dinosaur Bone - approx 3cm - photographed for @jakes_gemz

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1289281251531987/user/100001005266801

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gifs of various pseudoscorpions

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thorsty

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This train has a lot of passengers 🚂

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I think this is how they flirt

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i can't work out where the pouches are on your lil isopods? not sure what to look for pls help 😭

isopod marsupia aren’t really “pouches” but more of a transparent membrane grown on the belly that fills with nutrient-rich liquid and embryos.

the first isopod hasn’t grown a new marsupium after giving birth, so the belly is just segmented and smooth. the second has developed eggs, visible as greenish-yellow spheres inside the membrane. the final isopod is due to give birth in a day or two, with the juveniles already having developed legs, eyes, and everything within the marsupium.

you can actually see the segments, tails, and legs of the babies through the marsupium!

because marsupia aren’t very thick, a stressed female isopod (such as one grabbed by a predator) close to giving birth will break the membrane and expel the young immediately, giving them a chance at escaping.

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weevil 333

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copepod has mastered the paraloop

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They're being so romantic and they don't even know it

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New fwend :3

(ID Seems to be a Syntomeida melanthus)

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Walruses By: Unknown photographer From: Natural History Magazine 1962

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Gorgone Checkerspot (Chlosyne gorgone) on top of a Eastern Hognose Snake (Heterodon platirhinos) x.

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since you liked the last barely-identifiable tuft of arthropod matter so much, here’s another:

a colorful ricaniid planthopper nymph creeping furtively away from me while hiding behind its wax plume tail.

as an adult, it will lose the wax fluff and hold its broad wings flat when at rest, like these ricaniids I saw nearby. I’m not sure if the nymph belongs to any of these species, though.

Ricanula sp., Ricania sp., Pochazia sinuata

Singapore, 2023

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Moon Snail (x)

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THE ORIGIN OF THIS IMAGE:

So in my etsy I sell a pin of some isopods having at a bag of doritos based on this photo. Today I was contacted by the person who took it.

I asked to share this info and he gave permission!

Here’s the picture of him working with isopods and here’s a link to their published research!