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#invertebrate

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Ele Willoughby, PhD

This linocut shows a smack of jellyfish. The collective noun for a group of jellyfish is a "smack". This amuses me, because I imagine them smacking their tentacles together in some sort of deepsea high five. To be honest, marine biologists speak of 'blooms' and we do tend to lump in a bunch of soft-bodies marine creatures into the term jellyfish, all of the gelatinous zooplankton in fact....

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#linocut#printmaking#jellyfish
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#ColossalSquid filmed by scientists for first time in #ocean
The 30cm-long (11.8in) juvenile was caught on camera at a depth of 600m (1,968ft), near the South Sandwich Islands in the south #Atlantic Ocean. Little is known about colossal #squid's life cycle, but they eventually lose the transpaent appearance of juveniles. Experts believe colossal #squid can grow up to 7m (23ft) in length and weigh up to 500kg (1,100lb) - making them the heaviest #invertebrate on Earth.
bbc.com/news/articles/c99pg13y

The colossal squid, which has a transparent body and orange arms with tentacles on. It is floating in the deep sea, which is dark.
www.bbc.comColossal squid filmed by scientists for first time in oceanStunned scientists say the extremely rare squid can weigh up to 500kg (1,100lb).
Ele Willoughby, PhD

Thinking about pollinators, so sharing a favourite. This is a hand-printed lino block print of the charming Hummingbird Clearwing moth (Hermaris thysbe) seeking pollen from cherry blossoms. The olive-headed burgundy moth has transparent wings (though colour can be variable). It beats its wings rapidly to hover above flowers, like a hummingbird, meaning it is often confused with a hummingbird or bee. It has a 5 cm wingspan. 🧵

#linocut#printmaking#moth
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Petra van Cronenburg

"A piglet wrapped in an enormous duvet" - I'm just sitting at the interview with this fascinating person, suddenly she cries Yabba dabba doo! - her species won the Guardian #Invertebrate Of The Year contest! 🎉 "They are gloriously independent animals. They don’t need us half as much as we need them." theguardian.com/commentisfree/
Should I ask her what she thinks about the article?

#NatureMatchCuts#tardigrade#tardigrades
Frank Ashwood

Excuse the radio silence from me lately, it's been a very intense University teaching semester.

On the plus side, I've done LOADS of entomology-related lecturing, which has been great fun! Naturally, I've squeezed in plenty of soil invertebrate content to my lectures, such as this bizarre, not-quite-an-insect, Proturan!

Protura are six-legged, wingless, eyeless and lack pigmentation and antennae. Instead, they raise their front pair of legs forwards as they move, which are covered in sensory hairs. This gives them the slightly comical appearance of a villain in Scooby-Do trying to sneak up menacingly behind someone!

#Invertebrate#Macrophotography#SoilEcology
Christopher Cookson
Over 70% of earth's surface is covered in water, but probably over 99% of photographs are taken in air.
This is the first time I've ever seen or managed to photograph a member of the Sphaeromatidae family of isopods, in a shallow rock pool.
It's also the first time I've seen an active limpet, rather than as they usually appear, inert, clamped to rocks while the tide is out.
The stripy tentacle like appendages are fascinating.

#photography #underwaterphotography #newzealand #naturalhistory #naturelover #nznature #invertebrate #animals #nature #wildlifeohotography
#wildlifeohotography
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