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CW: flashing colors
A different kind of invertebrate art than my usual for #PrideMonth
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Happy #MothersDay! Here are some mamas of the invertebrate world.
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Happy #MothersDay! Here are some mamas of the invertebrate world.
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Happy #MothersDay! Here are some mamas of the invertebrate world.
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Happy #MothersDay! Here are some mamas of the invertebrate world.
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Today for #MarshMadness I've painted a marsh springtail, Isotomurus palustris. Springtails are not insects but their own class of hexapods called Collembola. They are named for the tail-like appendage (furcula) which is held under tension beneath the abdomen. When released it snaps against the ground, propelling the springtail through the air.
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Hmm... The termite mimic creature I shared yesterday for #GoblinWeek was not popular ... Can't imagine why. To make it up to you I have two creatures today, each named "goblin."
Goblin spiders (family Oonopidae) are tiny little guys with somewhere between 0 and 6 eyes, depending on the species. They are frequently found in fossilized amber.
Goblin roaches (Paratemnopteryx couloniana) seem to have been named that by the people who raise them as feeder insects. Like most feeder bugs, they're pretty easy going and cannot fly, though they might get a little jumpy.
#InsectArt #InvertArt #SpiderArt #spider #watercolor #SciArt
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Hmm... The termite mimic creature I shared yesterday for #GoblinWeek was not popular ... Can't imagine why. To make it up to you I have two creatures today, each named "goblin."
Goblin spiders (family Oonopidae) are tiny little guys with somewhere between 0 and 6 eyes, depending on the species. They are frequently found in fossilized amber.
Goblin roaches (Paratemnopteryx couloniana) seem to have been named that by the people who raise them as feeder insects. Like most feeder bugs, they're pretty easy going and cannot fly, though they might get a little jumpy.
#InsectArt #InvertArt #SpiderArt #spider #watercolor #SciArt
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Hmm... The termite mimic creature I shared yesterday for #GoblinWeek was not popular ... Can't imagine why. To make it up to you I have two creatures today, each named "goblin."
Goblin spiders (family Oonopidae) are tiny little guys with somewhere between 0 and 6 eyes, depending on the species. They are frequently found in fossilized amber.
Goblin roaches (Paratemnopteryx couloniana) seem to have been named that by the people who raise them as feeder insects. Like most feeder bugs, they're pretty easy going and cannot fly, though they might get a little jumpy.
#InsectArt #InvertArt #SpiderArt #spider #watercolor #SciArt
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Hmm... The termite mimic creature I shared yesterday for #GoblinWeek was not popular ... Can't imagine why. To make it up to you I have two creatures today, each named "goblin."
Goblin spiders (family Oonopidae) are tiny little guys with somewhere between 0 and 6 eyes, depending on the species. They are frequently found in fossilized amber.
Goblin roaches (Paratemnopteryx couloniana) seem to have been named that by the people who raise them as feeder insects. Like most feeder bugs, they're pretty easy going and cannot fly, though they might get a little jumpy.
#InsectArt #InvertArt #SpiderArt #spider #watercolor #SciArt
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A couple of squishy little guys for today's #ArtAdventCalendar, both of which gain their superpowers from their food!
The leaf sheep (Costasiella kuroshimae) is a sea slug that sequesters chloroplasts from the algae it eats, making it one of the few known animals capable of photosynthesis.
Blue dragons (Glaucus atlanticus) are seas slugs that feed on venomous siphonophores like the man-o-war. They sequester the stinging nematocysts and concentrate the venom into their own tissues for use in both defense and hunting prey.
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Some more 3d art for today's #ArtAdventCalendar, this time carved from wood scraps.
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Today for #ArtAdventCalendar, I have all of the insects I painted in 2024 for #Invertober (I missed it this year, due to moving). Rather than going with the official prompt list, I focused on invertebrates found in my home state of Colorado.
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Today is World Egg Day so here's a painting I did for #Invertober last year of a sweet mama desert centipede and her clutch of eggs.
Centipedes never actually meet to reproduce - males just drop off a spermatophore somewhere on the ground for a female to pick up and inseminate herself with later. Females do all the parenting, too, protecting, feeding, and even grooming her clutch of baby 'pedes.
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For #Arachtober today I have another painting I did for #Invertober last year, of a Boulder cave pseudoscorpion - Larva boulderica. First discovered by a particularly curious family of cavers in 2008, the species was finally formally described as a unique species last year.
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#SeptemBee* the 21st. I had to do something a little different for the #SciArtSeptember theme of "reef" because it turns out there are no reef bees. In fact, for entirely too long scientists just kind of assumed there were no underwater pollinators at all - who needs it, when water can just carry your gametes around? (What terrible logic - so many land plants are wind pollinated!)
It wasn't until 2022 that someone decided to actually watch underwater plants, in this case algae, and found that invertebrates like this little isopod (Idotea balthic), nicknamed the bumblebee of the sea, do in fact carry pollen around and aid in plant reproduction.
All this AI crap being shoved in our faces but so much of scientific knowledge still just relies on paying attention to your surroundings.
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#SeptemBee* the 21st. I had to do something a little different for the #SciArtSeptember theme of "reef" because it turns out there are no reef bees. In fact, for entirely too long scientists just kind of assumed there were no underwater pollinators at all - who needs it, when water can just carry your gametes around? (What terrible logic - so many land plants are wind pollinated!)
It wasn't until 2022 that someone decided to actually watch underwater plants, in this case algae, and found that invertebrates like this little isopod (Idotea balthic), nicknamed the bumblebee of the sea, do in fact carry pollen around and aid in plant reproduction.
All this AI crap being shoved in our faces but so much of scientific knowledge still just relies on paying attention to your surroundings.
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Okay, not an insect and possibly stretching the definition of "marsh" for #MarshMadness; but today I painted an eelgrass isopod, Pentidotea resecata, because they're adorable. Just look at them. They get their bright green coloring from the eelgrass they eat; individuals grown on brown kelp tend to be brown. This probably helps them blend in better to their environment.
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Okay, not an insect and possibly stretching the definition of "marsh" for #MarshMadness; but today I painted an eelgrass isopod, Pentidotea resecata, because they're adorable. Just look at them. They get their bright green coloring from the eelgrass they eat; individuals grown on brown kelp tend to be brown. This probably helps them blend in better to their environment.
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Why yes, I did spend an inordinate amount of time on this! Which would be... any amount of time at all tbh. But these guys are just so cute!
A soil centipede, Strigamia epileptica. They live (as the common name suggests) in soil and leaf litter and eat other inverts.
Fun fact! Centipedes have venomous fangs called forcipules (not pictured) which are actually modified front legs.
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Why yes, I did spend an inordinate amount of time on this! Which would be... any amount of time at all tbh. But these guys are just so cute!
A soil centipede, Strigamia epileptica. They live (as the common name suggests) in soil and leaf litter and eat other inverts.
Fun fact! Centipedes have venomous fangs called forcipules (not pictured) which are actually modified front legs.
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I painted some of the best invertebrates: springtails (class Collembola). No longer considered insects, these hexapods are named for a tail-like appendage (called a furcula) that is held under tension beneath the abdomen. When it is released, the furcula springs against the ground and sends the little guy flying. Who needs wings? (Or external mouth parts, which is what differentiates these hexapods from true insects.)
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I painted some of the best invertebrates: springtails (class Collembola). No longer considered insects, these hexapods are named for a tail-like appendage (called a furcula) that is held under tension beneath the abdomen. When it is released, the furcula springs against the ground and sends the little guy flying. Who needs wings? (Or external mouth parts, which is what differentiates these hexapods from true insects.)
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This silly little creature is a leaf sheep (Costasiella kuroshimae), a type of sea slug capable of photosynthesis. They eat algae which they only partially digest, leaving the photosynthesizing chloroplasts intact. These plastids are sequestered in the leaf-like protrusions all over its body and can temporarily supplement the algae diet with sun-derived glucose.
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This silly little creature is a leaf sheep (Costasiella kuroshimae), a type of sea slug capable of photosynthesis. They eat algae which they only partially digest, leaving the photosynthesizing chloroplasts intact. These plastids are sequestered in the leaf-like protrusions all over its body and can temporarily supplement the algae diet with sun-derived glucose.
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This silly little creature is a leaf sheep (Costasiella kuroshimae), a type of sea slug capable of photosynthesis. They eat algae which they only partially digest, leaving the photosynthesizing chloroplasts intact. These plastids are sequestered in the leaf-like protrusions all over its body and can temporarily supplement the algae diet with sun-derived glucose.
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This silly little creature is a leaf sheep (Costasiella kuroshimae), a type of sea slug capable of photosynthesis. They eat algae which they only partially digest, leaving the photosynthesizing chloroplasts intact. These plastids are sequestered in the leaf-like protrusions all over its body and can temporarily supplement the algae diet with sun-derived glucose.
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This silly little creature is a leaf sheep (Costasiella kuroshimae), a type of sea slug capable of photosynthesis. They eat algae which they only partially digest, leaving the photosynthesizing chloroplasts intact. These plastids are sequestered in the leaf-like protrusions all over its body and can temporarily supplement the algae diet with sun-derived glucose.