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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

She heard you call her fat and is sad now D:

Tiny adorable jumping spider sheds a tear

Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I have been weirdly consistent since Gen4. I guess when Gen11 finally drops in like two years or so I'll have to take the grass starter.

A chart of all the Pokemon starters for you to pick your fave from each generation. I've selected Charmander, Cyndaquil, Mudkip, Piplup, Snivy, Froakie, Rowlett, Soble, Sprigatito, and Geckqua.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I was just about to remark about how similar they look to the dragonhunters (Hagenius brevistylus) we get in the eastern US, but I looked it up and turns out they're actually pretty closely related! Neat little guys, always a fun find.

A dragonfly nymph, Hagenius brevistylus (common name dragonhunter) on a white background. The nymph is leaf-like, dark brown, and kind of hexagonal in overall shape.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Diagnosis is insufficient shrimb. Have a skrimp.

A bamboo skrimp sitting on a stalk of eelgrass, filter feeding in the current using its fan-like claws.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

If you have a Publix nearby, this stuff is magical

It’s a quart of Publix’s black swamp raspberry cheesecake ice cream. The tub has pink alligators on it. Hell yeah.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Finally got around to panel lining this kit. Very unique design, I dig it. GQuuuuuux has had some very funky (positive) designs that I've really been enjoying. Now I'm waiting on water slide decals to replace the (crummy) included stickers for the red highlights. #gunpla

A photo of a 1/144 (HG) kit of the titular GQux. It's holding its shield forward with the beam saber held back at the ready.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I blinked and now there's an entire house party of sentient beans all over my aquarium. The local shrimp are fine but are worried about all the noise.

A microscopic view of some kind of Ostracod, looking very bean-shaped.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Cool find from last night's blacklighting session: this caterpillar hunter beetle, genus Calosoma. A very cool, metallic colored predatory ground beetle. This individual is probably C. wilcoxi or C. scrutator. #inverts

A metallic green beetle, Calosoma spp., perched on a window screen. Its abdomen is large and shield-shaped, lined with an orange-gold stripe, and its sharp mandibles are visible, perfect for preying on small insects like caterpillars.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Been cooped up in the office all winter, so I went and dipped my toes in the local creek. IDs in the alt text! #inverts #insects #freshwater

The following photos are all in my field sampling tray, which is a shallow white basin that I put the aquatic animals I find dipnetting into.

This first photo is of a small reddish-brown damselfly nymph, Argia spp., clinging to some debris in the center of the frame. It is elongated but stout, with a squared off head and cylindrical abdomen. It's missing the usual caudal gills that these guys have, which do sometimes fall off. They're normally flat and tapered, leaf-like.

A small baby crayfish clambers through the tray, something in the family Cambaridae. Its tail is almost translucent and its claws are little more than tiny snippers at this stage.

A long, slender brook salamander (Eurycea spp.). Its sides are a dark brownish black, and its back a medium tan, but the boundary between the two isn't especially distinct -- some mottled speckling extends from the sides onto the back and vice versa.

A stream mayfly nymph, family Heptageniidae. Its stout body ends in three long, tapered tails, one of which has been damaged and fallen off halfway up its length. The nymph has very flat, leaf-like limbs and a rounded, flattened head that collectively helps it cling to rocks and debris in the flowing waters these guys prefer.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Well, the shrimp pocky was a big hit. 🦐

A bunch of my red cherry shrimp swarming over what I can only describe as a big Pocky stick of shrimp food that you stick vertically into the substrate to feed them. It’s very cute.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

and you may ask yourself, "well, how did I get here?" #inverts #spiders

A small jumping spider, perched on top of a chainlink fence. The spider is covered in soft white hairs, and its eyes are surrounded by orange. It is staring off into the distance, contemplatively.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Quote post with a picture you took in a National Park. Florida tree snail (Liguus fasciatus) spotted in Everglades National Park.

A brightly colored Florida tree snail climbing the side of a tree. Its shell is banded with white, brown, yellow, and a few pink stripes.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Adult dragonflies: beautiful, graceful, agile Baby dragonflies (nymphs): tiny alien murder machines 💚 #dragonfly #inverts #odonata

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Oop, the gif didn’t upload correctly, so here it is as a video instead.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Was digging through my old images and came across this gif I made of an eastern pondhawk dragonfly emerging from my aquarium several years back. Enjoy! #inverts #dragonflies

A quick gif of an eastern pondhawk dragonfly metamorphosing from the aquatic nymph stage to become an adult dragonfly. The nymph, which is a squat, wingless little guy that doesn’t look much like the adult, has already climbed out of the water on a stalk of vegetation.

It then sheds its skin, crawling out from a split down its back, and unfurling its wing pads, which then slowly expand parallel to its abdomen as it pumps hemolymph (bug blood) into them. Its abdomen also extends downward into the long, familiar tapered abdomen of an adult dragonfly. Its colors slowly shift from a pale semi-translucent yellow green to a bright, vibrant green with black banding.

Finally, it spreads its wings to rest from the endeavor before readying to fly away and go on with its life. The gif is sped up, but this process normally takes a few hours and is done overnight to avoid predators.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

More shrimp! How did I forget how fantastic my Tokina 100mm macro is for this kind of work?? Also Pepper wants to know what would happen if we kissed under the pan pride shrimp stickers. jk jk... unless? Stickers are by @corrodedparadox.bsky.social, check them out! #inverts

A nice dark moody shot of one of my brown speckled wildtype Neocaridina shrimp, perched on a piece of driftwood, facing off in the distance to the left. The right side of the frame is partially obscured by java moss.

A nice red and white banded Neo sits on the gravel, beneath a sticker of a pair of cartoon shrimp, decked out in pan pride colors (blue, yellow, pink) touching claws. uwu

A wildtype Neo, speckled brown with a light tan "racing stripe" running down its back. It's perched on some sprawling java moss.

A reddish-orange lil guy Neo, facing off contemplatively to the left on its driftwood ledge.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

One of my housemates is judging me for exporting these as full resolution, but enjoy these beautiful glossy shrimb pics

A nice wildtype Neocaridina perched on a blade of Valisineria. She has eggs tucked under her tail!

A nice, bright red cherry Neocaridina, also perched on Valisineria. I guess they like this stuff.

Another of the cherry red shrimp, perched and browsing on a mat of fine hair algae.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I think I am going to have to make some kind of master data sheet (or a few) for this project I’m working on, because even finding the proper raw data for analysis has been a nightmare. It’s just folders within folders of excel spreadsheets with 30+ character names that explain nothing

It’s the “this is fine” dog meme. A cartoon dog can be seen sitting at a table, wearing a hat. The room around him is on fire, but he seems indifferent to it. This is my hell.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

the children yearn for the sinking carnivore pellets™️

A photo from my aquarium of a small cherry red shrimp snacking on some sinking carnivore pellet, alongside several of his lil snail buddies.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Happy Friday, folks. Here’s a close-up of a male blue dasher dragonfly (Pachydiplax longipennis) to brighten up any winter blues you might be having.

A male blue dasher dragonfly sits perched on a small branch. Its eyes reflect blue with an underlayer of red on its white face, its thorax black and yellow striped, and the abdomen, trailing out of sight to frame right, is a vibrant blue.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry #crustmas y’all! My final crabby gift to you all is this swimming crab, Achelous spinimanus. He’s sort of Christmas colored, no?

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Merry #crustmas Eve, y’all! Have a holiday find of my own, from many years back — the claw of a flame-streaked box crab (Calappa flammea)

The claw of a flame-streaked box crab, sitting in the palm of my hand. It’s white and speckley streaked with red and orange. Very pretty.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

#crustmas day 23 funky wunky porcelain crab, Euceramus praelongus

Somebody stretched this crab out, and not in the direction you think

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

#crustmas day 22! Sea slaters, anyone? (Ligia occidentalis).

An image of a flat, gray sea slater (Ligia occidentalis) hiding among rocks. These are common in intertidal areas.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

#crustmas day 21, itty bitty shore crab (Pachygrapsus transversus)!

Just a smol guy, a lil fella. He's reddish brown with yellow-green speckling, tucked among some driftwood.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

We're in the final #crustmas countdown now, folks. It's dangerous to go alone, take this (tiny green porcelain crab, Petrolisthes armatus).

This absolutely tiny green porcelain crab fit on my fingertip. He's kind of shaped like a backwards pentagon with legs and flat claws, and very long orange antennae.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

#crustmas day 19 and we're getting weird again. How do we feel about scuds (Gammarus fasciatus, in this case)?

A goofy lil freshwater scud, Gammarus fasciatus, sits upside down on its side in a deli cup. It has just. So many legs.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

#crustmas day 18, that's it that's the post I'm dead 💀

A dead/molted speckled purse crab (Persephona aquilonaris).

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

#crustmas day 17! This thinstrip hermit crab (Clibanarius vittatus) is doing their best to get in the Christmas spirit. They can't grow a beard like Santa does, so maybe these bubbles will do?

A thinstripe hermit crab (Clibanarius vittatus), olive green with tannish yellow stripes down its limbs, hangs out of its shell (maybe pear whelk?). This guy is absolutely covered in foamy bubbles, looking like a Santa "beard" of sorts.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

#crustmas day 16, things are getting hectic for me with the holidays looming so soon, I dunno about y'all. Maybe chill out with this lil mangrove crab (Aratus pisonii)?

A small, blackish brown mangrove tree crab with yellow spots crawls along a sprawling, mucky mangrove tree root system.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

On the 15th day of #crustmas, my true love netted me up one of these American water slaters (Caecidotea spp.), a freshwater relative of the roly polies most people know and love. I still think they're cute little boogers, what about you Bsky?

A freshwater isopod (Caecidotea spp.) in a mucky sampling tray with a white bottom, surrounded by leaf litter, a few bladder snails (Physella spp.), and other critters.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

#crustmas day 14, how about a stone crab (Menippe adina) tucked into a pin shell?

A stout brown gulf stone crab (Menippe adina) lies tucked into a quill-shaped pin shell among a bed of seagrass.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

On this Friday the 13th of #crustmas, may your feed be blessed by this calico crab (Hepatus epheliticus) to ward off any bad luck you might encounter.

A small calico crab (Hepatus epheliticus) sits in the muck. Its low, rounded shell is cream colored and speckled with reddish brown spots.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The twelfth day of #crustmas is upon us, we're almost halfway there! Y'all hanging in there, like this goose barnacle (Lepas anserifera)?

A cluster of <2cm white goose barnacles, Lepas anserifera, on the left side of the image, attached alongside some algae to a piece of floating driftwood. The barnacles almost look like pointy canine teeth.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

#crustmas day eleven already, time certainly flies. For today, have a little porcelain crab (Porcellana sayana). This species is commensal with many hermit crab species, meaning it often lives in or on their shells.

A nice red porcelain crab, speckled with small grayish blue and cream spots and streaks, sits in my outstretched hand at the beach.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

On the 10th day of #crustmas, my true love once again got a little freaky and got me this mole crab (Emerita talpoida). It's cool though. She matches my freak.

A close-up photo of an Atlantic mole crab (Emerita talpoida) on my outstretched palm. The crab is roughly ~3cm long and looks sort of like if you gave an egg some little leggies to move around on.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Day nine of #crustmas! Blue crab of the net, what is your wisdom? (Callinectes similis)

A small blue crab (Callinectes similis) sits in a net, one claw raised to the sky in anger.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Happy Sunday, Bluesky. For the eighth day of #crustmas, how about a crayfish in these trying times? (Procambarus spp., probably acutus? Found in a river in the eastern US).

A nice reddish orange crayfish, Procambarus spp., sits in a clear plastic viewing box in a couple of inches in water. The white speckles on its carapace made it pretty rough to the touch.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

#crustmas day seven, we have a classic! The fiddler crab (Atlantic marsh fiddler specifically, Minuca pugnax). Love these harmless little dorks.

Several small crabs are scattered throughout the picture, but the focal point is a male mud fiddler crab (Minuca pugnax) just right of center frame. It has a bright blue carapace, just visible above the silty waters, and a bright yellow, oversized left claw used to signal mates.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The sixth day already, #crustmas is flying by. My lovely wife @puddiwhop.bsky.social would like everyone to know that this tiny little hermit crab (Pagarus longicarpus) looks like he lives inside a joint. Correction: she says he *is* the joint.

A small hermit crab, Pagarus longicarpus, in a long, skinny augur shell.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

On the fifth day of #crustmas my true love got a little weird with it and got me this little branchiopod dude (Eulimnadia spp.).

A teeny tiny, <1mm oval-shaped crustacean called a branchiopod, under magnification.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

#crustmas day four -- grass shrimps yes please give me more!

A small (~3cm total length), nearly transparent grass shrimp (Palaemon spp.) sits in a small cup on a white background.

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Dr. Meadowhawk @meadowdoc.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

It #crustmas. Today let's mix things up with a non-crab crustacean: the humble roly poly, Armadillidium vulgare.

A small (<1") roly poly (Armadillidium vulgare), gray shell speckled with yellow is in center frame. There are several other, smaller roly polies surrounding it, as well as a pair of small terrestrial garden snails.

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