I love visual science! Made these today. What you can see are two cross-sections of an Onychophore from different angles.

#InvertebrateShitposting as per @joabaldwin.com's request

Did you know gum blossoms don't just attract bees - Australia's eucalypts rely on a huge range of species for pollination! Stay tuned for more stories about #OurEucalyptHome in the lead up to National Eucalypt Day on March 23rd! Cartoon in collaboration with @eucalyptaus.bsky.social!

Looks like we're doing a parasite- themed zodiac takeover. Where are our parasitologists at? #invertebrates 🪲🕷🪱🦑🦀🪼

Bees 🐝

Have you herd? 🦓 We've just published the GBIF quarterly global and country analytics reports! Explore dazzling data ✨such as occurrence records by taxa, time and seasonality trends, completeness and precision metrics, data sharing trends by country and more! 🔗 www.gbif.org/analyti...

Wonderful time of the year - "The crab horde will now move inland to the jungle" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

🗣️ A short extract about our world’s butterflies of the night… 🦋 🌒 #NatureWithin #TeamMoth

Postdoc job: Insecticide resistance genomics, Australia.

My latest 'Value in nature' post celebrates the many valuable ecological services provided by bats, while calling attention to various threats to their populations. mscaterino.pika.page/posts/bats-w... #biodiversity #nature 🌐

What time is it ? It’s #Cheliceratime ! For the first entry of cheliceratime, let’s start with a classic : Misumena vatia, aka the goldenrod crab spider! #spider #arachnid #chelicerate #arthropod All the basic infos are here but if you want to lean more there’s more below !⬇️

Boosting to #SciArt

Two new species of bird-dropping crab spiders, from the Philippines and Malaysia, are diagnosed, illustrated and described. See more here: doi.org/10.3897/zook... #biodiversity #spiders #taxonomy

Finally found a gold Christmas beetle, so of course I had to paint him! #christmas #art #watercolor #watercolour #bugart #beetle #insectart

Thanks to @franzanth.bsky.social for drawing my attention to this wonderful post. Look at those gorgeous, shiny schizomid babies! Many arachnids are great moms 😍

Very grateful that Wisdom appears to be on track to outlive me, so I'll never have to experience a November without this annual message

Trioza urticae. #Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Triozidae #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem

Vampire and ghost bats, dementor wasps, goblin sharks, assassin bugs, blood-firing horned lizards...and much more! Read about nature's spookiest and how to celebrate Halloween more sustainably! theconversation.com/lets-celebra...

Cute, right? But slow lorises can also cause their victim's flesh to rot away. Find out about more cool wildlife 👇

Arachnid eating another arachnid - this tiny (3 mm.) jumping spider, a female Anasaitis canalis in Costa Rica, is munching on a pseudoscorpion (if you zoom in, you can see one of its claws hanging down). Pseudoscorpions look like super-tiny regular scorpions, but have no tail. 🐙🌿 #Arachtober

Day 5 #Invertober2025 - Painted spiny lobster (Panulirus versicolor) 🦞 #SciArt #invertebrates

Reminder that you can submit early to the December art book so we all won't scramble when the holiday season comes!

oh wow! A stunning Porpita shot from @natalipaqpa on the other site

Whoa!

Cute beetle in my garden - Histerid beetle/ Saprinus sp 🪲 #insects #bugsky

🚨 Call to scientists, research groups, and universities across Europe! The EC is considering “simplifying” core EU environmental laws — incl. Nature Restoration Regulation, Water Framework Directive, Birds & Habitats Directives etc. Submit your input & share: 🔗 ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

Join us! The Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History is hiring a curatorial associate! For more information : careers.amnh.org/postings/4529

Eminent entomologist Dr Chris Reid is awarded the 2025 Australian Museum Research Institute Medal for his outstanding career which has transformed our understanding of beetle taxonomy. #EurekaPrizes

It's wildflower season!

I hope Aus won't be blocked! "...smaller providers may choose to opt out of Australia entirely. Bluesky blocked Mississippi users after a similar age assurance law passed in the state, citing costs in developing age verification systems and lack of resources." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

since people keep asking what our current activities are, I've compiled the links and made this my pinned post. you can now easily send this to your friends. #InverteFest

A beautiful example of Inostemma, the tiny unicorn of the garden! The long horn on the female metasoma houses its unique ovipositor system. Males don't have horns.

Velvet worm repeat pattern! Putting more invertebrate linocuts into surface design! 🧪🐡 These adorable, caterpillar-like blue velvet worm from New Zealand (Aotearoa). Velvet worms (phylum: Onychophora) are named for their velvet-like texture and somewhat wormlike appearance. They are elongated, 🧵

The last two days of drawings for #AugArthroAwe. #TradArt

The second volume of 'Dhoombak Goobgoowana', the Indigenous history of the University of Melbourne, subtitled 'Voice', now available entirely open access @mupublishing.bsky.social At: www.mup.com.au/books/dhoomb... @austhistassoc.bsky.social @humanitiesau.bsky.social

Opportunity: Arthropod Taxonomic Specialists (10 positions) at the University of Guelph 🪰🐝🪲🕷️🦂

A comprehensive checklist of bat species recorded from selected caves in Sabah and Sarawak, Malaysia: doi.org/10.3897/zook... #biodiversity #ecology #bats

Lovely naturalistic scene of birds and a butterfly in a papyrus thicket, carved by an ancient Egyptian artisan some 4,500 years ago! Faint traces of paint survive on this limestone wall relief from the funerary temple of king Userkaf. Egyptian Museum, Cairo 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology

Two new #subterranean #pseudoscorpions just dropped! 🪲🌏🧪 au.news.yahoo.com/incredible-p...

Kind of this lovely #millipede to give us a clue to its identity - forming an "S" for Spirostreptida. Mount Cooke Area, Western Australia.

Hey #soil #taxonomists! Have you described a species in the last 5 years? Tell us about in our Free + Open Submission event Name Drop! New species unveiled faster than you can say Linnaeus www.globalsoilbiodiversity.org/gsb4 #soilbiodiversity @thegsbi.bsky.social

I love this trend of adding beautiful native #biodiversity murals around #Perth suburbs #NatureArt

Beetles are the most speciose animal order: 25% of described animal species are beetles. Everything has to start somewhere, though, and for #FossilFriday, here is the earliest known 'beetle' - the 297 million year old Coleopsis, found in Freisen (Saarland, Germany). ⚒️🧪🦀🦑 #evosky

Come and do a PhD with me! 🎓 🌏 🧑‍💻 🏙️ 🗺️ 🌿 🪶🧪 I have TWO projects eligible the 2025 Curtin University RTP scholarship round: Benchmarking biodiversity outcomes for nature positive urban development: research.curtin.edu.au/hdr-r-projec... #wildOz #urbanNature

Still #TeamVelvetworm but I couldn't resist the opportunity to share this little video of turtle #frogs - another wonderfully weird Aus animal. www.abc.net.au/news/science...

The thing about entomology is, there are always weirder bugs than anything you could imagine on your own. Here's Cysteodemus wislizeni, a blister beetle from west Texas.

I'm #TeamVelvet too - it's hard to ignore an animal that shoots some at it's prey! but there are lots of fascinating animals on this list, have a look and vote

Adorable #stygofauna art. I love that #InsertAnInvert2024 is still inspiring art

In far less pleasant news -- it turns out that @devoevomed.bsky.social, @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social & I have all been targets of on-line smear articles, all in reference to our public criticisms of de-extinction. www.newscientist.com/article/2490...