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I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Cold!!

Misc. Rodence

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hi @bedupolker.bsky.social i found an isopod exploring the canopy

Sick ink

Chaparral habitats in CA

sweepy

Today's plein air

Letterboxd

Art by Suzana Dželatović

Minor character design pet peeve: when a designer finds the weirdest and most obscure beast that exists on this planet and airbrushes it into a vague Felix the cat rubberhose guy

Sometimes, you'll see herring gulls sporting stylish bands! The metal band contains a unique ID number, while other band's color tells us where the bird was banded.

More Rachel Rattler - I am partial to the very long version

Eating too much medically pure ketamine can give you a tummy ache

Sand worms had a big moment in media a couple years ago

This funky looking creature is a goose barnacle. It is actually multiple organisms that congregate on flotsam who spend their lives drifting at sea, as opposed to their homebody barnacle relatives.

Juvenile mantis, Costa Rica (I think Chaeteessa sp.). Well-camouflaged creatures are among my favorite macrophoto subjects; what seems drab from a distance almost always has beautiful complexity up close. Look at the thin yellow edging on the raptorial forelegs, for instance. 🐙🌿 #insects

Flappy 🥹

How do hermit crabs decide what the hottest shell's gonna be

Action-packed life or death chase between barnacles and their natural predator, the horrid dorid (Onchidoris bilamellata)

Repost due to a hosting issue, 18+ rat-on-mouse action comic, pay what you want! bedupolker.itch.io/reunion-18-m...

Commission for a friend's small business logo

Hummingbirds are tiny, cute, and surprisingly territorial.

Hair to dye for

Not all pollinators are bees... but many still steal the yellow and black striped look.

Here is your Sunday Spider, Sporting Socks. I think it's Ancylometes sp. (per iNat, A. bogotensis). As of 2025 it's in a brand new spider family, Ancylometidae. It was big (1.5"+ body length). I saw it by a stream; these spiders are semi-aquatic and can stay underwater for an hour. (Costa Rica) 🐙🌿🕷️

Dedicated to bumblebees, who've within the past few years been the first insects to demonstrate "play" behavior, including rolling a tiny wood ball into a goal.

Baby & big sis wasps... Grubs need a high-protein diet to grow, while adults mostly just have a sweet tooth!

Bee mimic beetle... Beetles are considered "dirty" pollinators because they sometimes eat and defecate in the flowers they're supposed to be pollinating.

Havent had a vacation in 252 million years!!!

Some tarantulas come in blue raspberry flavor

Mall rats

BEAR

Not seasonally appropriate (unless you're from the southern hemisphere ig)

Collection of rabbit-people commissions from tumblr

Some artfights

Crabs crabs crabs

This might be my favourite cat meme of 2025 so far

City Slicker

Fences

weird fishes

roly roly polies

storytime

Deer mouse & house mouse

Old Man Weevler's cottage

A bug that looks AI but is actually real. I present my humble contribution: Seed beetle (Ctenocolum sp.) from Honduras