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🪲 ICYMI: While most common #woodlice appear slate gray, the St. Lucia variety stands out with bright oranges, golds, and spotted #patterns. In a #timelapse by Tiny Sanctuary, hungry jelly bean #isopods of all sizes gather to feast on #sweetpotato chunks.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/jelly-bean-isopods-eat-sweet-potato
#animals #bugs #insects #crustaceans #detritivores #food #macro #vegetables #science #entomology #tksst #video
🪲 ICYMI: While most common #woodlice appear slate gray, the St. Lucia variety stands out with bright oranges, golds, and spotted #patterns. In a #timelapse by Tiny Sanctuary, hungry jelly bean #isopods of all sizes gather to feast on #sweetpotato chunks.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/jelly-bean-isopods-eat-sweet-potato
#animals #bugs #insects #crustaceans #detritivores #food #macro #vegetables #science #entomology #tksst #video
🪲 ICYMI: While most common #woodlice appear slate gray, the St. Lucia variety stands out with bright oranges, golds, and spotted #patterns. In a #timelapse by Tiny Sanctuary, hungry jelly bean #isopods of all sizes gather to feast on #sweetpotato chunks.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/jelly-bean-isopods-eat-sweet-potato
#animals #bugs #insects #crustaceans #detritivores #food #macro #vegetables #science #entomology #tksst #video
🪲 WATCH: While most common #woodlice appear slate gray, the St. Lucia variety stands out with bright oranges, golds, and spotted #patterns. In a #timelapse by Tiny Sanctuary, hungry jelly bean #isopods of all sizes gather to feast on #sweetpotato chunks.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/jelly-bean-isopods-eat-sweet-potato
#animals #bugs #insects #crustaceans #detritivores #food #macro #vegetables #science #entomology #tksst #video
There is so much life in the compost! I counted about a billion woodlice, thousands of giant grubs, hundreds of centipedes.
Before I dive into the reason for my disappointment, let me quickly update you on the changes that I made to the bin during the past two years.
🪱 I changed the shape. The top 80% of the bin is now more or less straight, only the bottom 20% tapers inwards. I previously announced this plan in https://ieji.de/@juliangonggrijp/111524084659269125 and following toots.
🪱 I replaced the bottom lid, which had a circular pattern of small holes in the center but was otherwise closed, by a 5 mm gauge sieve grate. This allows more air into the bin and enables the castings at the bottom to start drying already before I harvest them.
🪱 A low, wide salad bowl is suspended under the bottom grate. It contains freshly harvested castings. This lets the castings dry further. At the same time, it offers a hospitable landing site for #worms and #woodlice that fall out the bottom of the bin.
🪱 A colander is perched on the lid at the top of the bin. It contains the previous, older and dryer batch of harvested castings. Worms that ended up in the harvest can crawl back into the bin through the holes in the colander and the lid.
Common Shiny Woodlouse (Oniscus asellus)
#Woodlouse #Crustacean #Isopod #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Crustaceans #Crustacea #Isopods #Isopoda #Woodlice #Animal #Animals #Arthropod #Arthropods #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography
Common Sea Slater (Ligia oceanica)
#SeaSlater #Crustacean #SeaLife #MarineLife #Woodlouse #Isopod #Crustaceans #Crustacea #Isopods #Isopoda #Woodlice #Animal #Animals #Arthropod #Arthropods #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
Common Sea Slater (Ligia oceanica)
#SeaSlater #SeaLife #MarineLife #Woodlouse #Crustacean #Isopod #Crustaceans #Crustacea #Isopods #Isopoda #Woodlice #Animal #Animals #Arthropod #Arthropods #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography
2/2 And if it helps you to stay curious for your whole life, you can name it "Slow Looking" and feel a little bit Zen or hypey. 😉 https://steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/posts/47c218fa-5ba0-4dae-9140-305637008a00
#NatureMatchCuts #curiosity #curious #nature #soilLife #natureObservation #observation #NaturePhotography #woodlice
The two most common #woodlice in Central Europe in deadwood in #Berlin: #Porcellio #scaber and #Oniscus #asellus, #detritusfeeders. Both originate from Western Europe and appear as neozoa e.g. in America. Their #ecologicalrequirements differ: O. asellus tolerates #drought better. P. Zidar et al. (2003) found in choicetests that O. asellus properly #detects #foodqualities, which might be of #hygienic applied interest.
© #StefanFWirth 2025
Ref
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14677364/
#Photos:
© S F. Wirth
Mastodon can be a great source of inspirations! Thanks to @ak_text post about #SlowLooking I discovered a buzzword important for #nature, and every #museum and #gallery.
I show you how to do it and why a woodlouse under a stone can be as interesting as an ancient artefact behind glass:
https://steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/posts/47c218fa-5ba0-4dae-9140-305637008a00
And of course you can buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/naturematchcuts/tip or subscribe to my #newsletter!
#NatureMatchCuts #mindfulness #woodlice #compost #senses #kids #education #soilLife #soil
🧵 1/ My first school room in #nature was a loose rock in a dry stone wall: https://www.cronenburg.net/naturematchcuts_podcast/behind-the-scenes/
For many years I missed some species of that #soilLife until I built a box for making photos. Home to #woodlice and their roommates to show people the adventures happening in #compost and being able to photograph better. At irregular intervals, I'll take you on a tour, as for all things nature without #CW.*
#reconnectWithNature #biodiversity #soil #gardening #Naturephotography #macro #humus
So what are people's thoughts on using wood chips for weed suppression? I've heard that fungal decomposition sucks nitrogen from the surrounding soil, plus the nooks and crannies can provide ideal habitat for plant-nibbling pillbugs. (This is not my plot.) #CommunityGarden #garden #gardening #weeds #mulch #fungi #woodchips #nitrogen #pillbugs #woodlice #allotment
I keep pet woodlice and I've been testing what food they like to eat, and so far, they've gobbled up courgette and cabbage, but not really interested in celery leaves or lettuce. They eat dead leaves and whatnot but they don't show the same level of enthusiasm as they do to courgette and cabbage...Interesting...
#woodlice #invertebrates
It's woodlouse season in our house.
Lovely little things, full of character.
Did you know they can live up to four years?
I don't think they celebrate like we do so I don't feel guilty if I've missed an occasion.
Brickwork Woodlouse (Porcellio spinicornis)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brickwork_Woodlouse_(Porcellio_spinicornis)_-_B%C3%A6rum,_Norway_2021-09-16.jpg
#Woodlouse #Crustacean #Isopod #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Crustaceans #Crustacea #Isopods #Isopoda #Woodlice #Animal #Animals #Arthropod #Arthropods #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography
You can probably imagine my disappointment when I opened up these images and saw I had missed focus by fractions of a milimeter.
The woodlice have been eating my strawberries, but I tried to make the most of it by getting some strong red backgrounds and interesting scenes from it. I nearly managed, but just marginally missed as the little guys were moving around so fast.
Oh well, maybe next year
#photography #MacroPhotography #macro #fail #woodlice #nature #garden #strawberry
Another film super-macro shot. This time, the woodlice were eating my strawberries. I'm not particularly happy with how many they ended up eating, but at least I got a photo out of it?
Canon EOS 30
Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8
Raynox DCR-250
Ilford HP5
#photography #MacroPhotography #FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #macro #wildlife #woodlouse #woodlice #garden
Ever seen a woodlouse shedding? It splits directly down the middle, the front falls off forwards and it walks out of the tail. Or, in this case, sits and eats the front first. The moult looks like a little, white ghost of a woodlouse.
#photography #MacroPhotography #wildlife #nature #woodlouse #woodlice #moulting
Meet the smallest animal known to spread #seeds with its poop https://www.science.org/content/article/meet-smallest-animal-known-spread-seeds-its-poop
#Earwigs and #woodlice as some of the world's smallest internal #SeedDispersal agents: Insights from the #ecology of Monotropastrum humile (Ericaceae) https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppp3.10519
"the #woodlouse is the smallest animal yet known to disperse seeds by eating them. It and other small #invertebrates play underappreciated roles in spreading #plants far and wide."
Woodlice really don't get enough love. Living fossils in your own back garden!
#photography #MacroPhotography #wildlife #nature #woodlice #woodlouse #closeup #macro
#Biofluorescence: Unseen world of the #CelticRainforest revealed by UV
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-68301119
"The ancient woodlands are full of #moss and #lichen which light up under #UV and lots of creatures too, like #WoodLice and #centipedes all doing interesting things."
I don’t know if it’s clear here but this is my jar of #woodlice #isopods #arthropods. They’ve been happily munching away on dead leaves 🍁 for months like this now.
