#invertebrates — Public Fediverse posts

Amazing these otherworldly creatures inhabit the little ol' English coast. Unlike other #Devon #ctenophores we saw the Northern Comb Jelly (Beroe cucumis) lacks tentacles, instead engulfing other ctenophores with huge mouth. These ancient marine #invertebrates are largest animals to swim with cilia.

Glowworms shine again in North Yorkshire after larvae reared in garden shed https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/07/glowworms-shine-again-north-yorkshire-larvae-reintroduction #Insects #EndangeredSpecies #Animals #Conservation #NorthYorkshire #Environment #Invertebrates #UkNews #Wildlife

Glowworms shine again in North Yorkshire after larvae reared in garden shed
By Patrick Barkham

Volunteer ‘glow-getters’ overseeing reintroduction of endangered beetles at Nosterfield nature reserve

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/07/glowworms-shine-again-north-yorkshire-larvae-reintroduction

#Insects #Endangeredspecies #Animals #Conservation #NorthYorkshire #Environment #Invertebrates #UKnews #Wildlife #TheGuardian #PatrickBarkham

Can you find the grasshopper? New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/.../09/hide-and-seek.html #VancouverIsland #Insects #Camouflage #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography

Can you find the grasshopper? New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/.../09/hide-and-seek.html #VancouverIsland #Insects #Camouflage #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography

Can you find the grasshopper? New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/.../09/hide-and-seek.html #VancouverIsland #Insects #Camouflage #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography

Can you find the grasshopper? New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/.../09/hide-and-seek.html #VancouverIsland #Insects #Camouflage #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography

Can you find the grasshopper? New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/.../09/hide-and-seek.html #VancouverIsland #Insects #Camouflage #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography

:woozy_bee: 🦐

Honeybees and shrimp are now getting vaccinated

Lab Trials Show Shrimp Survival Rising From Zero to 58% With Inherited Immune Priming

Bee vaccine is not injected. It is mixed into the feed that worker bees consume, incorporated by those workers into royal jelly, and fed to the queen.

#Invertebrates #bees #Shrimp #Agriculture #Science

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/319569/20260702/first-insect-vaccine-bypasses-antibody-barrier-epigenetic-immune-priming.htm

:woozy_bee: 🦐

Honeybees and shrimp are now getting vaccinated

Lab Trials Show Shrimp Survival Rising From Zero to 58% With Inherited Immune Priming

Bee vaccine is not injected. It is mixed into the feed that worker bees consume, incorporated by those workers into royal jelly, and fed to the queen.

#Invertebrates #bees #Shrimp #Agriculture #Science

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/319569/20260702/first-insect-vaccine-bypasses-antibody-barrier-epigenetic-immune-priming.htm

:woozy_bee: 🦐

Honeybees and shrimp are now getting vaccinated

Lab Trials Show Shrimp Survival Rising From Zero to 58% With Inherited Immune Priming

Bee vaccine is not injected. It is mixed into the feed that worker bees consume, incorporated by those workers into royal jelly, and fed to the queen.

#Invertebrates #bees #Shrimp #Agriculture #Science

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/319569/20260702/first-insect-vaccine-bypasses-antibody-barrier-epigenetic-immune-priming.htm

:woozy_bee: 🦐

Honeybees and shrimp are now getting vaccinated

Lab Trials Show Shrimp Survival Rising From Zero to 58% With Inherited Immune Priming

Bee vaccine is not injected. It is mixed into the feed that worker bees consume, incorporated by those workers into royal jelly, and fed to the queen.

#Invertebrates #bees #Shrimp #Agriculture #Science

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/319569/20260702/first-insect-vaccine-bypasses-antibody-barrier-epigenetic-immune-priming.htm

:woozy_bee: 🦐

Honeybees and shrimp are now getting vaccinated

Lab Trials Show Shrimp Survival Rising From Zero to 58% With Inherited Immune Priming

Bee vaccine is not injected. It is mixed into the feed that worker bees consume, incorporated by those workers into royal jelly, and fed to the queen.

#Invertebrates #bees #Shrimp #Agriculture #Science

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/319569/20260702/first-insect-vaccine-bypasses-antibody-barrier-epigenetic-immune-priming.htm

in the works of great masters like Rembrandt.

Ironically The Night Watch, cited in the worm article, long believed to use Orpiment was recently shown to have used pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar instead. But both natural and produced orpiment have been found amongst his pigments in other paintings, like one previous, known as The Jewish Bride. 🧵3/4

#scicomm #arthistory #invertebrates

in the works of great masters like Rembrandt.

Ironically The Night Watch, cited in the worm article, long believed to use Orpiment was recently shown to have used pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar instead. But both natural and produced orpiment have been found amongst his pigments in other paintings, like one previous, known as The Jewish Bride. 🧵3/4

#scicomm #arthistory #invertebrates

in the works of great masters like Rembrandt.

Ironically The Night Watch, cited in the worm article, long believed to use Orpiment was recently shown to have used pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar instead. But both natural and produced orpiment have been found amongst his pigments in other paintings, like one previous, known as The Jewish Bride. 🧵3/4

#scicomm #arthistory #invertebrates

in the works of great masters like Rembrandt.

Ironically The Night Watch, cited in the worm article, long believed to use Orpiment was recently shown to have used pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar instead. But both natural and produced orpiment have been found amongst his pigments in other paintings, like one previous, known as The Jewish Bride. 🧵3/4

#scicomm #arthistory #invertebrates

in the works of great masters like Rembrandt.

Ironically The Night Watch, cited in the worm article, long believed to use Orpiment was recently shown to have used pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar instead. But both natural and produced orpiment have been found amongst his pigments in other paintings, like one previous, known as The Jewish Bride. 🧵3/4

#scicomm #arthistory #invertebrates

24-Aug-2026
Evolutionary arm race in Cenozoic seas shaped modern diversity of marine #snails

A large scale study of nearly 700 species reveals the #evolution ary relationships and history of #Neogastropoda, a diverse group of marine snails. The findings provide new evidence for their single origin, identify four new families and reveal a previously undetected burst of diversification in the early #Cenozoic.

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1141219

#science #marineBiology #invertebrates #gastropods

Embrace your inner bug (and stop excusing politicians by labelling them as such)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/20/winner-invertebrate-of-the-year-2026-crowned-leaf-sheep

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/20/humans-bugs-invertebrates-of-the-year-natural-world-chris-packham

#Invertebrates #Lovely #Useful #Attractive #Essential #Environment #Celebration

Embrace your inner bug (and stop excusing politicians by labelling them as such)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/20/winner-invertebrate-of-the-year-2026-crowned-leaf-sheep

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/20/humans-bugs-invertebrates-of-the-year-natural-world-chris-packham

#Invertebrates #Lovely #Useful #Attractive #Essential #Environment #Celebration

Embrace your inner bug (and stop excusing politicians by labelling them as such)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/20/winner-invertebrate-of-the-year-2026-crowned-leaf-sheep

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/20/humans-bugs-invertebrates-of-the-year-natural-world-chris-packham

#Invertebrates #Lovely #Useful #Attractive #Essential #Environment #Celebration

Embrace your inner bug (and stop excusing politicians by labelling them as such)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/20/winner-invertebrate-of-the-year-2026-crowned-leaf-sheep

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/20/humans-bugs-invertebrates-of-the-year-natural-world-chris-packham

#Invertebrates #Lovely #Useful #Attractive #Essential #Environment #Celebration

Embrace your inner bug (and stop excusing politicians by labelling them as such)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/20/winner-invertebrate-of-the-year-2026-crowned-leaf-sheep

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/20/humans-bugs-invertebrates-of-the-year-natural-world-chris-packham

#Invertebrates #Lovely #Useful #Attractive #Essential #Environment #Celebration

Mixed media

#Honeybees and #shrimp are now getting vaccinated
#Vaccines that target #invertebrates’ innate #immunesystems could be a major boon for agriculture
It has become increasingly clear that #innateimmunesystem has own way of creating immune memory. Scientists think this memory is achieved through #epigenetic changes, modifications to #DNA that don’t alter genetic sequence, and that these epigenetic changes can be passed from one generation to the next.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/honeybees-and-shrimp-getting-vaccinated
https://archive.ph/guvRa

Busy Beavers - The Turbidity Signature Of Ecosystem Engineers At Work
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https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.70661 <-- shared paper
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H/T @alan Puttock
“Beavers are the quintessential ecosystem engineers. In slow-flowing streams, they create complex wetlands with ponds by building dams and canals that can positively impact biodiversity, hydrology and water quality. These activities can interchangeably capture or release sediment along the watercourse. To date this has not been quantified at the resolution of rainfall events or beaver activity. This study used 15-min frequency, sustained monitoring upstream and downstream of a newly establishing beaver wetland to measure episodic changes in water turbidity at an event resolution. Monitoring showed no significant differences between upstream and downstream turbidity over 160 days when the first pair of beavers, known not to be building dams or canals, were resident. Shortly after introduction of another beaver pair, however, dam building, burrows and canal excavations were quickly observed, resulting in the creation of a complex beaver wetland between 2021 and 2024. Monitoring over 375 days during this period showed significant differences. Downstream turbidity was significantly higher overall than upstream: 13.1 Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU) compared to 4.2 NTU. Stochastic spikes in downstream turbidity during the study period not recorded upstream were associated with dam building and burrowing. Overall, there was no significant difference in turbidity loads, which was at least partially explained by a reduction in discharge downstream, particularly in higher flows, during the dam building period. This demonstrates a complex system with the trapping of influent sediment, the storing of water and the periodic release of beaver wetland sediment leading to net balance in loads. These results help provide context for other studies which have used temporally discrete sampling campaigns rather than continuous high-frequency monitoring. They provide a unique insight into the downstream impacts of a rapidly developing beaver wetland over its first three and a half years in a landscape that hasn't had beavers for over 400 years…"
#hydromorphic #water #hydrology #dam #beaverdam #waterquality #biodiversity #ecology #benefits #NatureBasedSolutions #Wetlands #Ecology #Biodiversity #EnvironmentalScience #Wildlife #Ecosystem #bioviversity #conservation #restoration #landscaperecovery #floodmanagement #FloodMitigation #flooding #energy #floodrisk #sustainability #wetlands #hydrography #dams #impoundment #deadwood #waterresources #landscapeengineer #benefits #vegetation #ecology #ecosystem #riversystemsstabilisation #naturalwaterregulation #resilience #valleysreborn #fisheries #invertebrates #extremeweather #floodflows #sediment #baseflow #drought #landmanagement #naturalsystems #landuse #monitoring #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🕷️💨 The jungle #huntsman #spider from #Queensland reached 3.59 meters per second, doubling the previous #arachnid speed record.

Researchers at #Imperial College #London measured 162 #species across four #continents to study spider #locomotion. They found that longer legs relative to body size predict greater speed.

👉 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2532086-the-worlds-fastest-spider-tops-3-5-metres-per-second/

#biomechanics #arachnids #animals #science #biology #evolution #australia #wildlife #invertebrates #nature

A Spear Thistle for #LawnFlowers for #WildflowerHour. Growing on a grass verge at Chieveley motorway services this afternoon. Also one of its #PollinatorPals - a rather spectacular #hoverfly. #Berkshire #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography #invertebrates

Why is #JavaScript so popular? I hate everything about it.

I'm speaking at the #Canberra Field #Naturalists meeting at #ANU next month on #Malaise trapping and the #insects and other #invertebrates that surround us without our noticing them.

I expect most of my slides to be arrays of four or six #microscope images with a header (probably a family name in most cases) and captions for each image.

I don't want to lay out all these images in #LibreOffice (or any similar presentation tool) because I'm a perfectionist and getting it all tidy will take forever.

So, I decided to try out #Slidev, #Marp and other #Markdown-based presentation tools. The Markdown part is very appealing, but they all lean hard into JavaScript. That would be fine so long as I don't have to think about that side of things.

Slidev's AppleBasic theme seemed to be the best starting point, so I started hacking it to add som extra gridded image views. Plain image grids were not too challenging, but I really want captions for each image, so I started trying to understand how the templates use the forest of underlying JS libraries and CSS artefacts to produce the displayed slides.

Frankly, the whole thing is so opaque and would take me much longer to understand than preparing multiple presentations by hand would.

Then I realised I can use #montage on the command line to produce the kind of layouts I want, and I can script #exiftool to extract and prepare the captions which will save time.

So, my new plan is to write a #Python script that processes a #YAML file listing all the slides, titles and image paths. It can generate PNG images that are close to the target 1920*1080 size (give or take a little). I'll then use LibreOffice for a couple of more text-oriented or irregular slides, export those and combine all the images into a PDF.

I'm sure this will be way faster than battling Node.js. Not sure why I felt I had to write it up.

https://fieldnatsact.com/

Massive New #Seamount Discovered in International Waters Off #Guatemala
https://schmidtocean.org/massive-new-seamount-off-guatemala/

"The 1,600-meter seamount covers 14 square kilometers and sits 2,400 meters below sea level... This marks the ninth #seafloor #discovery since the #ResearchVessel #Falkor (too), was launched in March... #Seamounts are #biodiversity hotspots, providing surfaces for #DeepSea #corals, #sponges, and a host of #invertebrates... There are more than 100,000 #unexplored seamounts taller than 1,000 meters."

#Zoanthid & #Crab

#NautilusLive #EVNautilus #Nautilus is LIVE NOW: https://www.youtube.com/live/wUz1Vb7I2DU?si=162bjFMosSqPi2TM

#DeepSea #Animals #Invertebrates #ROV #ResearchVessel

#SeaCucumber

Seascape #Alaska 5: Gulf of Alaska Remotely Operated Vehicle Exploration and Mapping

#NOAA #Okeanos is LIVE NOW: https://www.youtube.com/live/YgEl_fFt--Y?si=kKtDFXqJ2EUxOSOy

#DeepSea #ROV #ResearchVessel #Ocean #Animals #Invertebrates

#SeaPen

Seascape #Alaska 5: Gulf of Alaska Remotely Operated Vehicle Exploration and Mapping

#NOAA #Okeanos is LIVE NOW: https://www.youtube.com/live/YgEl_fFt--Y?si=kKtDFXqJ2EUxOSOy

#DeepSea #ROV #ResearchVessel #Ocean #Animals #Invertebrates

#SeaUrchin & #BrittleStar

Seascape #Alaska 5: Gulf of Alaska Remotely Operated Vehicle Exploration and Mapping

#NOAA #Okeanos is LIVE NOW: https://www.youtube.com/live/YgEl_fFt--Y?si=kKtDFXqJ2EUxOSOy

#DeepSea #ROV #ResearchVessel #Ocean #Animals #Invertebrates #Echinoderms

#SeaAnemone

Seascape #Alaska 5: Gulf of Alaska Remotely Operated Vehicle Exploration and Mapping

#NOAA #Okeanos is LIVE NOW: https://www.youtube.com/live/YgEl_fFt--Y?si=kKtDFXqJ2EUxOSOy

#DeepSea #ROV #ResearchVessel #Ocean #Animals #Anemones #Invertebrates