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[Unsolicited nudis: ongoing spread of two non-native nudibranchs along Australia’s east coast]

Forbes et al. (2025)

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My instructor: You good to dive today?

Me, having a verbal shutdown this morning: *nods*

Me, internally: BLEASE lemme go where I’m not obligated to talk and can just signal and float in neutral buoyancy with critters around pleasepleaseplease

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I hate it when dogs won’t stop begging me for food 🙄

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Crown of thorns starfish

Sure thing!

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I FOUND!!!!!!!!!! BDBANNANAKJNNQ

My beloved,,,

She’s a Philippine giant blue millipede I found chilling on a log. Took a bit to convince her to let me pick her up, but she was very polite and sociable before being returned to her detritus <3

Humanity doesn’t deserve such a friend-shaped forest spirit. I would die for her

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My dive camera case leaked cuz I forgot to grease the o-ring so uh. LAND CRITTER TIME!!!!

This funni man woke me up at 4am on my first night with his yelling XD

Beetles 💥💥💥

A katydid(?) and some flavor of cute little Hemiptera(?)

And three back-to-back girls’ night outs, of which I can only send the second cuz Tumblr is gatekeeping my bug videos. The first two were for honey bees, and the third was flying ants who knew no boundaries.

I can’t wait to see the Philippine giant blue millipedes again omg. Fat babby,,,

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PROS of living in a rainforest: Your soft candy doesn’t dry out and stays at the perfect consistency!

CONS of living in a rainforest: Ants want aforementioned candy So Bad

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GOING BACK TO MCP IN LESS THAN A WEEK LESS GOOOOOOOOOO

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I forgot about this account lol

Here’s some sea slugs from my stay with Marine Conservation Philippines in *cough* 2022 for your amusement

What I think these blorbos are (please educate me if I’m wrong XD):

A chromodoris nudibranch maybe? Like glossodoris? Help

*cries* I don’t knowww

Nembrotha lineolata

Chromodorid nudibranch (Goniobranchus kuniei?)

Chromodoris annae

Nembrotha kubaryana

Pleurobranch (Pleurobranchus forskalii)

Blue dragon nudibranch (Pteraeolidia ianthina. Not glaucus lol)

Dotted/funeral nudibranchs (Jorunna funebris)

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Critters I found in Anilao, Philippines (2019)!!

Nudibranch capital of the world <333

Here’s my guesses for what these are:

Nembrotha chamberlaini (nudibranch aka sea slug)

Anthia fish under a… hydrazoa?

Orange skunk clownfish (or pink?)

Crinoid aka feather star

Brittle star on hard coral

Nudibranch

Chromodoris willani (nudibranch)

Reef hawkfish

Map pufferfish

Ribbon eel (adult male)

Please let me know if I’m wrong or if you wanna share the specific species!! I always love learning more lol

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A bunch of coral close-ups from some of my dives in Anilao, Philippines (2019)!!

(The coral variety by Sombrero Island in particular is just immaculate)