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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

I collaborated on the snails in short series and had a great time working on these with @franzanth.bsky.social

Snails in short page describing handedness in snails, snail feeding modes, and how snails make shells out of different minerals

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

Don't sleep on the crab database as a source for #InsertAnInvert2024! Here are images of all 3 of the suggested true crab species this week: Ixa cylindrus by Ondřej Radosta Stenorhynchus debilis (close enough) by Arthur Anker Ranina ranina by Tin-Yam Chan Explore this website! 🦀🧪

dorsal view of Ixa cylindrus, looks like a round crab but with long tubular projections from the lateral parts of its carapace

photo by Ondřej Radosta

dorsal view of Stenorhynchus debilis. the body is teardrop shaped, with a lengthy pointy rostrum, and is striped vertically. the legs are loooong and spindly

photo by Arthur Anker

dorsal view of Ranina ranina. this species doesn't look like a true crab, because its carapace is elongated and its pleon (abdomen) is sticking out the back like a very skinny lobster's would. the eyestalks are emphasized, as are the wrench-like claws and spade-like legs.

photo by Tin-Yam Chan

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Julianne Zelda Kiely 🌿Commissions open🌿 @palaeojules.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

Early Cretaceous hatchet wasp! Procretevania exquisita, a parasitic wasp from the Yixian Formation of China! #paleoart #wasp #insect #entomology

A pen line drawing of a dumpy looking wasp, with short stubby legs, small wings and a large round abdomen.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

Quick crab drawing guides that @jopabinia.bsky.social and I made a few years back to get you all started for this month's #InsertAnInvert2024 theme: Carcinization. Fun fact, this was the beginning of the whole "Insert An Invert" series

crab anatomy diagram that covers the basics of the crab anatomy and names of various body parts

diagram that shows the various different shapes of crab claws and how the shapes relate to their lifestyles

diagram showing the various segments of crab legs and how the different leg shapes relate to their lifestyles

diagram showing all the complicated limbs that sprout out from a crab's face

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

When most people think of the "zombie snail parasite" they think Leucochloridium paradoxum - but that's just one out of ten different species of Leucochloridium. They all have different colours and patterns, this one is called L. passeri. #invertebrate 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2023/01/leuc...

Left: Snail infected with Leucochloridium passeri collected from Hemei Township (Changhua County) by Jui-An Lin, photo.
Top right: Labelled L. passeri broodsac.
Bottom right: A trio of L. passeri broodsacs with metacercariae removed from an infected snail.

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

The #InverteFest group most closely related to us: tunicates! Yes, they are part of chordates, whether they represent the largest free swimming salp (Thetys vagina) or sessile species (Polycarpa aurata and the colonial Didemnum molle)! 🦑🧪 *check out the amphipods riding the salp

Thetys vagina. Seen swimming through a night time plankton soup, it is several inches long and looks like a transparent blob with some interior structures from anterior to posterior. The gut is yellow/orange.
ALSO there are a bunch of hyperiid amphipods riding on the blob head end!
Screencap from gopro video on my blackwater dive in Tulamben Bali

Funny leathery sock like critter, Polycarpa aurata. It's stuck to the seafloor and has 2 big openings. Mostly light orange with bright purple grooves and some tubercles on the outside
Photo from Seraya, Tulamben Bali

A bunch of Didemnum molle attached to a rope(?) which is overgrown with sea life. There are 20-30 small round individuals in the colony, and one big one that you can see inside the siphons. They are white on the outside and green on the inside
Photo at Seraya, Tulamben Bali

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Julio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

It's the last day of #InverteFest and I'm working on something with bugs! Kind of.

A poster with lineart of Bug Pókemon from the Sinnoh Region depicted in realistic style.

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Duncan @goblinville.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

It was once believed that you could predict the harshness of an upcoming winter by looking at the stripes of wooly bear caterpillars. A large central brown stripe indicates a mild winter, while a small stripe means it will be harsh 🐛 #InverteFest

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

#InverteFest runs until the end of the month (Tuesday). Keep posting your invertebrate art, plug your merch & service, find some bugs in the wild, do whatever you want. Here's our community science project on iNat if you haven't joined: www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...

a poster showing 14 different crab species. there's a lanky boi, there's one with serrated claws, another with triangular carapace, a hermit crab in ammonite shell, and so on.

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

I finished my April #InsertAnInvert2024 with an Elvis worm just in time for #InverteFest. I LOVED drawing the different marine worms. #SciArt

a large watercolor journal page with watercolor illustrations of 4 different marine worms: a brown knotted up ribbon worm, a fluffy reddish pink and blue feather duster worm protruding from a tube, a purplish blue shinny scale worm and a yellow white and black oval shaped flatworm

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Duncan @goblinville.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

In European folklore, stag beetles were often associated with the devil, and some believed they would carry burning coals in their mandibles to set houses on fire #InverteFest

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 01/05/2024

Been waiting to deploy my mantis shrimps for #InverteFest! The first two are a cheeky and a a shy individual of Odontodactylus scyllarus, the most beautiful species. The last is a terrible picture of a larval stage somersaulting in blackwater 😍🦑

Full body view of the beautiful peacock mantis shrimp in every color of the rainbow. You see why it's called the peacock as there are bright colored spots on the uropods and on the antennal scales.
Melasti, Tulamben Bali

Another of the same species. This one is shy so it is mostly in a burrow, but its amazing eyes seem entrained on my camera
Melasti, Tulamben Bali

Black water that looks like outer space. In the center is a weird transparent mantis shrimp larva with one pair elongated hooked appendages (these are the smashy ones in adults)

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MagicMetalBird 🐑 @magicmetalbird.com · 01/05/2024

InsertAnInvert2024 Wormification week 3: long, not limbless Fuchsia flatworm (pseudoceros ferrugineus)

a fuchsia flatworm crawling around. It's not very fuchsia in this drawing, which is drawn in blue and shaded with blue halftone. just pretend it's a cyan flatworm, an animal that probably doesn't exist.

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MagicMetalBird 🐑 @magicmetalbird.com · 28/04/2024

InsertAnInvert2024 Wormification week 2: long, not limbless Giant tube worm (riftia pachyptila)

four giant tube worms coming up from the same spot. they're drawn in blue lines and shaded with blue halftone.

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InvertebratePosting @invertposting.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

Ah crap, I've somehow managed to miss most of InverteFest! Been writing several new blogposts and also workin on two large speculative evolution projects, one of which will be posted here real soon. In the meantime, I've updated this one invertposting.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-...

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Mesozoic deadfall communities - an ancient ecology

This post is about Mesozoic deadfall communities - think whalefalls, but marine reptiles! The dead bodies of large aquatic animals have a b...

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InvertebratePosting @invertposting.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

Happy #InverteFest! My discord server is hosting an invetebrate-themed #speculativeevolution project, focusing on invertebrates that might've existed in deep time but didn't fossilize; bring your best hypothetical radiodonts and weirdest cycad pollinators

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Jen C Mars @jencmars.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

A mantis, for #InverteFest Pencils and gouache on 9x12" hotpress paper. #insects

Close up portrait of a green mantis looking directly at the viewer on a soft, out of focus shadowy green background.

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

A #TBT pic for #InverteFest - a newly-hatched angle-wing katydid (Microcentrum sp.) on my fingertip. I don't put myself in the picture that often, but sometimes it's fun for scale. Antennae for days. 🐙 🌿

A macro photo of a tiny, newly-hatched green katydid perched on a fingertip against a blue-green background.

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Stanton @stanton.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

The creature on the cover of "17 Defunct Arthropods" is Marmacuma samimei, an extinct hooded shrimp from Late Pleistocene Turkey, where it lived in a hypersaline lagoon until its home reconnected with the Black Sea, then died out due to fatally drastic salinity changes #InverteFest

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Stanton @stanton.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

The trilobite on the cover of my Brief Primer of Trilobites is the legendary Terataspis grandis, a gigantic lichid trilobite from Early Devonian New York and Ontario. It's known from fragments that suggest an adult animal of at least 60 centimeters in length. #InverteFest

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Making our way to #InverteFest.🐌 #guildeleven #art

A giant snail with structures and windows on its shell, accompanied by octopuses, traversing choppy waters.

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InvertebratePosting @invertposting.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Happy #InverteFest! Here's another thread focusing on the invertebrates in paleo documentaries, this time the amazing Sea Monsters - A Prehistoric Adventure! Six species are featured in the documentary – coiled ammonites, Baculites, Tusoteuthis, Uintacrinus, jellyfish, and Inoceramid clams.

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

#InverteFest is going strong. I'm compiling the artists who are selling things or looking to connect with clients under this post. Go support them! Feel free to add yourself.

poster design with 12 nudibranch species of various shapes and colors. some are round, others long, frilly, or branched

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Stanton @stanton.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

In celebration of #InverteFest, go buy my coloring book, "17 Defunct Arthropods" and leave a 5 star review! It features various non-trilobite arthropods both obscure and famous, and all defunct www.amazon.com/Defunct-Arth...

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Amazon.com: 17 Defunct Arthropods: Volume I: 9798668318414: Fink V, Mr Stanton Fordice: Libros

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

Look how cute they are together! Sketches of adult & nymph blunt nosed leafhoppers (Limotettix vaccinii). Adorable little problems for cranberry growers. Onward to refining & painting! I want to get these done before a research talk in May. #invertefest #invertfest #entomology #SciArt #art

Adult and nymph blunt nosed leafhopper sketches on an iPad.

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🦋 Alie of the Woods 🦋 @humanbyweight.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

(I'm still fussing with it here and there, but) Here is the official cover reveal for my upcoming book, THE CICADAS OF NORTH AMERICA! Preorders are available NOW at www.OwlflyLLC.com/publications !!!

The cover-in-progress for my upcoming book, "The Cicadas of North America". The cover shows the title in the top-center, with "Owlfly Publishing" along the top edge and "written & illustrated by Chris Alice Kratzer" at the bottom. There are 22 cicadas of various shapes and sizes arranged radially out from the center. Their colors range from brilliant reddish-orange to deep black, sandy yellow, forest green, and foamy turquoise. It seems like someone really put a lot of effort into this!

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

I don't usually share rough sketches but here we are at #invertefest. So why not. Blunt nosed leafhopper drawing for my own research. Excited to paint its fabulous leopard print wings! #SciArt #entomology

Rough drawing of a blunt nosed leafhopper on an iPad.

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InvertebratePosting @invertposting.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Happy #InverteFest!! Over the next few days I'll be posting some threads (which are expanded upon on my blog) looking at invertebrates in paleomedia, discussing my personal speculative evolution project that I've been working on, and sharing some cool papers I've found lately! Starting off with...

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

It's close to midnight in Seattle so that means it's time to POST YOUR BUGS!! #InverteFest has begun! Now through the last day of April.

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Stanton @stanton.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

So the first one is my profile pic now. Because I TOUCHED A COCONUT CRAB 🦀🦀🦀 😍😍😍😭😭😭 #InverteFest at the fantastic Okinawa Churami aquarium!

Me leaning over overjoyed because in front of me is a coconut crab, showing its mostly dorsal side to camera

The adorable face of the largest land invertebrate

Lateral view of a coconut crab, showing the fascinating posture of the pleon held so closely underneath, yet so rounded. This photo shows how the animal is mostly blue, as is typical for Okinawan population

My hand holding the squishy membrane of the pleon, with a claw reaching backwards

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jennifer likes trees @jlss.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Large painted locust - Galápagos Islands #invertefest

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 22/04/2024

#InverteFest begins on Wednesday. If you do invertebrate art, get ready to plug your service/merch. If you don't have invert art YET: 1. what are you doing with your life 2. I got you, here's a curated gallery of invert references showing artist-friendly angles www.inaturalist.org/observations...

screenshot of the website inaturalist showing a grid of thumbnails of invertebrate photos, mostly insects

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Greetings, chordate comrades. #InverteFest is upon us. tl;dr: Over the last 7 days every April, August, and December, we invite you to show the internet your coolest bugs & slugs. Go find critters, post your art, write wikipedia pages, do whatever you like to celebrate invertebrates with us!

What is #InverteFest?
It’s a periodic event where we invite you to celebrate the overlooked invertebrate fauna around you and share the joys of discovery online. #InverteFest takes place every April, August, and December over the last 7 days of the month.

Going out?
1. Find invertebrates
2. Share observations online using the hashtag #InverteFest
3. Interact with others who are celebrating the event

BONUS: Join our iNaturalist project to contribute to community science

NOT Going out?
• Post your squid painting
• Stream a game where you play as a crab with a knife
• Selfie with your 27 beetle enamel pins
• Write wikipedia pages

QUESTIONS?
ask franzanth / maureenbug / kellybrenner on iNaturalist / twitter / tumblr / instagram / bluesky

MORE INFO AND IDEAS ON: invertefest.com

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

I think I've taken this clione (sea angel) as far as I can with my current charcoal abilities.

A large format charcoal illustration of a clione, which is a sea slug with wings that flies through the water with two little horns

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Danna Staaf @dannastaaf.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

Okay, was anybody going to tell me there are TWO species of vampire squid, or was I just supposed to find that out by searching bioRxiv after a throwaway comment in a talk about cephalopod brains? 🧪🧛🐙🦑 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Vampyroteuthis southchinaseais sp. nov.—a second Recent widely distributed species of Vampyromorpha (Cephalopoda, Coleoidea)

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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Stanton @stanton.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

BECOME AS GODS

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Stanton @stanton.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

Goldringia #RINGRINGRING

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

I added a flatworm for this week's #InsertAnInvert2024, but the prompt species colors hurt my eyes so I chose a species that mimics a nudibranch

a large watercolor journal page with three watercolor illustrations of a six lined ribbon worm, brown with lighter stripes, all twisted in a knot, and a feather duster worm, pinkish and blue, looking like the name implies, a feather duster, stuck out of a tube and a flatworm with a yellow edge, black stripes and spots

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

My latest #InsertAnInvert2024 for week two was a feather duster worm because I see these all the time on docks and I really love them. #SciArt #Invertebrates

a large watercolor journal page with two watercolor illustrations of a six lined ribbon worm, brown with lighter stripes, all twisted in a knot, and a feather duster worm, pinkish and blue, looking like the name implies, a feather duster, stuck out of a tube

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sad bug w/ 1 million sads @herebespiders11.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

AHHHHHHHHHHH! My earliest luna moth sighting ever!!!! #InverteFest 🌿🐛

A beautiful freshly emerged luna moth resting on a concrete wall. The moth has feathery yellow antennae and wine-red feet. The front edge of the wings and the "shoulders" on the thorax are also red, along with one eyespot near the front edge on each wing. Most of her wings are lime green. Her hindwings have twisted long tails.

A close-up of the same moth, showing the thick wavy pale yellow hair covering her back and wings.

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JA Fields | NonCompliantCyborg @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

Happy #inverteFest! Tonight I went out looking for marine inverts and found a couple Euplokamis dunlapae (ctenophore), a Clytia gregaria (jellyfish), and a shrimpy guy riding a jelly. 🐙🦑🌿

transparent jelly with crosshair like set of four white gonads and mouth held high in bell

Tiny ctenophore casting rainbows with distinctive teardrop tentacles outstretched

transparent shrimp riding a transparent jelly with a yellow mouth

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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 17/04/2024

Yep, no cuttlefish to see here!

A Pharaoh Cuttlefish (Acanthosepion pharaonis) lying on the sandy seabed, camouflaged or maybe covered in some sand to blend in well. From above, its outline is visible, giving its position away

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InvertebratePosting @invertposting.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

Little thread discussing some behind the scenes stuff; what I've been working on and will be working on, especially during this week.

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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

He seems so relaxed... I'm jealous...

A European Common Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) laying on the sandy sea bed, with its mantle mostly covered in sand. Its arms are all resting on the ground, and its pupils give it a sleepy look.

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