#invertefest — Public Fediverse posts
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The tiniest of tiny inchworms. (Hanging off my fingertip.) New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/measuring-earth-one-millimetre-at-time.html #VancouverIsland #Invertebrates #Moths #Larvae #InverteFest #NaturePhotography
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Last week of April means it’s time for #InverteFest! This time along with the collections of #invertebrate #sciart, they’ve published an anthology! They paired up authors and illustrators and made a marvellous invertebrate themed online book. Check out our sweet board book introducing the little ones to insect friends, included in the anthology. ‘Meet the Pollinators’ is written by Lisa Jaffe and illustrated by me.
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Today's #Weretober is a peacock mantis shrimp - neither a shrimp, mantid, or peacock - but they can punch faster than you can blink, so it's probably better to respect their space.
Especially if they're were-crustacean sized.
#Weretober2025 #mantisShrimp #crustacean #seaLife #furryArt #Invertefest
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#Spider warning for today's #Weretober - a werewolf! ...spider!
I'm pretty sure she looks more curious than hungry at the moment, but it's kinda hard to tell, so watch yourself.
#Weretober2025 #wolfSpider #lycosidae #bug #InverteFest #anthroBug #anthroSpider #bugFurry #spiderFurry #arachnophobia
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Yesterday I went to the big No Frills to get peanut butter as it was on sale, but it was sold out. In the evening I was like, let's try the No Frills near me. As I was passing a concrete pillar just down the street, I saw a surprisingly large jumping spider, the same pale grey as the concrete, cautiously emerging from a crack!
I had found a _Platycryptus undatus_ before, but a male one (they have reddish faces), which I guess must be much smaller. This one was as big as a bold jumper!
A common name is "tan jumping spider", but they are not necessarily tan-coloured, as you can see.
P.S. The other store did have the peanut butter.
#ArthroBeauty #InverteFest #DailySpiderPic #JumpingSpiders #spiders #Araneae #Salticidae
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Suddenly realized what the secondhand DSLR would be perfect for at my current beginner stage: the lakeshore thin-legged wolf spiders (_Pardosa lapidicina_)!
Though it is rather late in the season, I saw plenty of females with egg sacs running around—perhaps it's been warm long enough for them to have two litters? And I found one mother carrying babies. I also include photos of two colour variants, blue-grey and yellow-brown.
The mature males I've seen are all very dark, almost black. The largest females seem to be solid colours. I wonder if they change colour based on life stage?
#DailySpiderPic #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders #InverteFest #ArthroBeauty • #Araneae #Lycosidae