The bone collector caterpillar is a carnivorous caterpillar that lives in spider webs. It disguises itself with the corpses of the spider's prey, while stealing food from their eight-legged host's web 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The bone collector caterpillar is a carnivorous caterpillar that lives in spider webs. It disguises itself with the corpses of the spider's prey, while stealing food from their eight-legged host's web 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Uncle Roger's entire bit is just doing a really racist accent and playing a racist caricature of Asian people. His career is basically built on that whole schtick. It gives people an excuse to be racist towards Asians.

The ocean's Little Monsters: Monstrilloids are copepods with a peculiar life cycle. While the adults are planktonic, the juveniles are parasitic. They invade the bodies of invertebrates such as polychaete worms, and burst out of them xenomorph-style 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/11/cymb...

When I show my friends some new trinkets that I have just acquired

Just a reminder: Don't try to chat/DM me on this site - I can't read them

Tergivelum cinnabarium is species of deep sea acorn worm which is noted for being a big fan of Junjo Ito's Uzumaki #Invertebrate 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Wormception: Veneriserva pygoclava is a worm with a name that translates into "Venus' servant" - but the truth is quite the opposite. It is a polychaete worm that has evolved to live as a parasite inside the body of other polychaete worms. #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2024/03/vene...

💅 Not me and @alaskanime.bsky.social in discord comparing who's been a Jack Horner hater for longer* *spoilers: She won, she's been a hater since 2005, whereas my Horner haterade started at ~2010

This is by far the best anime-original depiction of Frieren

Usually when a light novel gets an anime adaptation, the ultimate goal is to attract more readers to the light novel. In that regards, Shiboyugi has failed for me - because I refuse to experience this story in any other format which isn't this.

I was on Tune FM (the University of New England student radio station) to talk about Sponges, Carnivorous Sponges, and a worm that lives with carnivorous sponges 🧪 #Invertebrate www.tunefm.net/2025/12/19/c...

Shiboyugi has an oppressive atmosphere that lingers throughout every second of each episode. It's like a quiet nightmare that fills you with dread at every moment.

I know we won't get to that arc this season, but they did hinted at *him*

I was on Tune FM (the University of New England student radio station) to talk about Polypodium hydriforme - a bougie caviar-munching jellyfish relative 🧪 #Invertebrate www.tunefm.net/2025/12/23/t...

As someone who prefers to cite their sources for just about everything I post online, and always try to make my statements as lucid as possible, this vagueposting trend is an absolute bane. I'm not falling for that engagement bait shit, I'm just gonna keep scrolling

Gotta hand it to Gary Larson - literally cow tools 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Finally got myself the Chinese edition of 寄生蟲図鑑 - the illustrated book of parasites published by the Meguro Parasitological Museum

Big Croakers vs Big Suckers: I've written a post about an outbreak of Limnotrachelobdella okae leech at a croaker farm off the coast of Raoping County, and how those big leeches and their bloody appetite caused a mass fish die-off #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2026/01/limn...

Pectenophilus ornatus is a species of parasitic copepod that lives on the gills of scallops, and it doesn't look anything like what you'd expect a crustacean to look like #Invertebrate 🧪 www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/biog...

Whenever I find out a colleague is using LLM to do literature searches and to "summarise" papers

Hexametra angusticaecoides is a nematode worm that usually infects lizards, (see: dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2020/08/hexa...) but this study found bats infected with this worm, possibly from eating insect prey which are usually eaten by lizards. #Invertebrate 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Look at my cats #Invertebrate #Insect

I am always on the look out for papers to write about for the Parasite of the Day blog, but because I can only write 12 posts each year, there are always interesting papers on my short list, that I didn't end up writing about on the blog. 🧪 The thread 🧵 below are the PotD honourable mentions.

My EDC kit includes some reading material, so if I find myself in a conversation I don't want to be in, I can do a tactical roll and start reading a scientific paper or review/edit a manuscript instead

Whale Shark with a full beard? NOPE, just parasitic copepods (Pandarus rhincodonicus) - LOTS OF THEM. For more info about those copepods, see: dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2010/08/augu... 🧪 #Invertebrate www.alamy.com/whale-shark-...

That Raqio, they speak the truth

You've heard of the Medusa, but what about the Cestusah? Here's Tina the Cestusah / Tapeworm Queen #monstergirl #art #OC www.deviantart.com/the-episiarc...

I don't have many Christmas-themed art, the closest thing to that is this (Cordycep-infected) moth girl whom I drew years ago #monstergirl #art #OC www.deviantart.com/the-episiarc...

welcome to the bread bank 🍞 we sell bread, we sell loafs 🥖 we got bread on deck, bread on the floor 🥐 TOASTED ROASTED

Gnosia has become my favourite show this season - it has an intriguing story, great writing, memorable characters, and fantastic production value. Oh, and the OP and EDs are absolute bangers. This show is firing on all cylinders and I can't wait to watch more of it.

RAWR! I've been following the Kaiju Girl Caramelise manga since 2019 so you bet I will definitely be SEATED for this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvRf...

Y'know, it's kinda wild that "Tomorrow, When the War Began" was prescribed reading at my high school, when you consider that in the story the "invaders" were heavily implied to be Asians, and most students at my high school came from families that are 1st or 2nd gen SEAsian immigrants

During the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction, about 85% of all marine species went extinct, but according to the fossil record, sponges were flourishing throughout this period. So while everyone else were dying, the sponges were winning - same as it ever was. #Invertebrate #SciArt

Bad Worm Rising: I've written a post about Gordius wulingensis - a white hairworm that lurks in limestone caves and turn camel crickets into living incubators #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/12/gord...

Since it's almost Christmas, let's have a look at what kind of things AliExpress has been recommending to me

I've been writing a lecture which is going to feature a wide range of different invertebrate taxa. At some point, I realised that instead of trying to source photos/images for all those taxa, it'd be easier (+ more stylistically consistent) for me to just draw them all myself. #Invertebrate #SciArt

A tick... on an ELECTRIC EEL??? That's like finding a cymothoid isopod on an elephant #Invertebrate 🧪 entomologytoday.org/2025/12/03/t...

These arrived in time for #Crustmas! The thing I really appreciate about gashapon toys is that sometimes they would make a series which is simply a bunch of different anatomically-accurate barnacles. In that regards, Ikimon is simply the GOAT when it comes to making these nature-themed gashapons

#Crustmas calls for Crustacean Monster Girls. Here's Cynthia the Cymothoid Monster Girl www.deviantart.com/the-episiarc...

The new Ze Frank video reminded me about an adaptation found in some entomopathogenic nematodes - using both their own muscle power and static electricity, they can leap into the air and home in on their host, like an anti-insect surface-to-air missile #Invertebrate 🧪 news.emory.edu/features/202...

"Urgent Reminder: Men are most easily fooled"

No, it's fine, I just didn't think the Butlerian Jihad would be led by a Korean, that's all

what level of lafufu is this

Hear ye, hear ye! Come get your biblically accurate crustacean from the deep, named after the Greek goddess of victory. #Invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/05/dend...

What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?

Codonobdella is a genus of leech found in the depths of Lake Baikal - there are three different species, and unlike most leeches which feed on vertebrate animals, Codonobdella is a parasite of amphipods #Invertebrate 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

No one expects the Crayon Shin-chan 痛车

狗屎糖 (Dog Shit Candy): "Eat the dog shit candy, walk the dog shit path"

There's a place at Chengdu's 人民公园 (People's Park) that sells these cute little dessert sampler trays