arthropods

3 min read 2021-12-11 21:00:43

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Send in your photos, please; the holidays will soon be on, and nobody will be reading or sending. Thanks! Today’s photos, a great batch, come from

1 min read 2021-11-26 20:45:42

A brief episode, occurring on a tiny scale. The spider-like animal in the middle of the photo is a blue-knee sea spider. Sea spiders are not

3 min read 2021-11-26 20:45:42

A brief episode, occurring on a tiny scale. The spider-like animal in the middle of the photo is a blue-knee sea spider. Sea spiders are not

1 min read 2021-08-06 22:05:46

These photos, from just on seven weeks ago, represent a little bit of good news – it seems the right time for such a thing. Two posts ago I wrote

2 min read 2021-08-06 22:05:46

These photos, from just on seven weeks ago, represent a little bit of good news – it seems the right time for such a thing. Two posts ago I wrote

3 min read 2021-04-07 00:30:00

Bug zappers seem logical: bugs fly toward light, so why not hang up a light that kills the bugs and enjoy a bug-free evening? Unfortunately, the bugs

4 min read 2021-03-20 20:00:00

If you’re not familiar with fire ants or their work, consider yourself lucky. Not only do their bites sting like hell, but they can also cause a

2 min read 2020-11-09 23:12:38

A very bizarre-looking, shrimp-like, five-eyed creature that lived in the ocean more than 500 million years ago may be the “missing link” in the

5 min read 2020-10-28 01:31:50

Application Deadline: 31 January 2021 Supervisors: Andreas Prokop, Matthew Ronshaugen, Karl Kadler Project details How to apply Fig.2 Click to

3 min read 2020-10-06 15:12:12

I know it may be hard to convince you, but let me try: Don’t kill the next spider you see in your home. He comes in peace. Photo by Matt Bertone,

4 min read 2020-10-02 22:00:26

It feels like an age since the Australian fires of last summer. Since then, the US has faced its own infernos. Those are now subsiding as another

3 min read 2020-09-17 20:54:13

It’s harvest time in central Washington. Daybreak in the pear orchards of the Wenatchee Valley is accompanied by the sound of ladders clanking,

3 min read 2019-08-14 20:13:51

This is the second of a handful of posts about the animals of Lembeh Strait, in Indonesia. (The first was this one.) The animal above is a

5 min read 2019-03-24 13:42:37

The image above is from a video taken by Steve Winkworth at Nelson Bay. The animal is a marine snail called Bullina lineata, also known as a bubble

4 min read 2019-02-24 18:13:22

Decorator crabs such as Hyastenus elatus encourage sponges, soft corals, algae, and hydroids to grow on their shells, attaching samples of these