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She's called a "Grainy Hand" hermit, Pagurus granosimanus. Sometimes that's all you see of her. Here, on a beach, she hides in the shell, but shows off those blue-buttoned "hands". #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit

A hermit crab on a rock covered with small acorn barnacles. The hermit hides in a greyish whelk shell, with a creamy white opening rimmed with orange. Of the hermit inside, all that is visible are the two chelipeds (pincers) and four other legs, and a tip of an orange antenna. The chelipeds have a base colour of olive green; the legs are orange. Chelipeds and legs are all covered with raised blue spots, more pronounced on the chelipeds.

Party outfit. Hermit crabs accept a variety of shells. Offered a freshwater zebra snail shell, one wore it briefly, then discarded it. The shape was right, but something just didn't click. The second hermit wears an invasive mudsnail shell; a popular choice. #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit

Two hermit crabs climbing an orange kelp holdfast. The hermit on the left wears a zebra snail shell, striped yellow and black, the stripes leading from the apex to the rim. The hermit is a Hairy, in very pale colours, orange, blue, and green. His eyes are striped, the antennae a dotted line in green and white. The second hermit, on the right, wears a long, narrow shell, striped brown and pale blue, but with a heavy coat of dark green algae on the open end. Background; sea lettuce, eelgrass.

An ant fell into a tidepool. And everything changed. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/05/far-reaching.html #VancouverIsland #Invertebrates #Animo

A red-headed, winged ant, on the surface of water over sand. Her struggles have made circles that fill almost the whole area. In the centre of the circles, her dark shadow is ringed with light. An inset, upper right, enlarged, shows the radiating lines around her footprints. In the lower left corner, there's a rock, with barnacles.

A rare and stunning millipede, Nearctodesmus insulanus. It's probably our second-largest local millipede!

#millipede #nearctodesmus #invertebrates #arthropod #macro #macrophotography #inaturalist #wildlife #coquitlam #canada #britishcolumbia

A flat-backed millipede with wine-red colouring and yellowish tips to its dorsal plates walks over a fern frond.

Older hermit crabs molt less frequently than the youngsters. This geezer has collected barnacles on his carapace; his hairs are coated with hydroids. (No harm done; he's fine.) #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit

An old Hairy hermit crab. His carapace is coated with algae and hydroids, and barnacles have settled in. (One is feeding.) There's even a barnacle on his knee. Under the coating of algae, he's green and brown, with pale blue highlights. His eyes, looking up at us, are striped; his antennules are segmented, with a thorn-like tip. He wears a white shell, speckled with yellowish algae. There's a two-tentacled worm sharing the shell; the tentacles wave in the water near the front of the shell, on the right side of the photo (Hermie's left.)

#NewSpecies!
New spider from #china just caught us:

Aculithus ruijin

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D31361FB-56B3-51B4-8576-ADD395F61D18
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e153747
#BiodiversityDataJournal #AculithusRuijin

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arachnology #arachnids #spider

#NewSpecies!
New big-headed fly from #colombia just landed:

Cephalops farallonensis

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FF043401-BC3C-5B7B-DEF4-FC7BFBAD7FCC
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5621.3.6
#Zootaxa #CephalopsFarallonensis

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #diptera #fly

#Mosquitoes as well as #midg(i)es in #Scotland - I always though it was too cold for them! #bugs #insects #invertebrates

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyq59r8x7ro

Hermit crabs are scavengers; they will eat almost anything they find. A favourite treat is the large, fleshy bladder of the bull kelp. Here, a Hairy and a Grainy Hand hermit stand on a half-eaten kelp bladder. #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit

Two hermit crabs; on the right, a very green Hairy hermit (dotted-line antennae), and on the left, a Grainy Hand hermit (orange antennae). Both wear well-aged shells; a couple of dark limpets are cleaning algae off the shell on the left. The hermits stand on a broken kelp bladder, a thick-walled globe and the top of its stipe. The outer skin is brown, mostly eaten away by now; beneath that, there's a thin yellow layer, and the inner flesh is white. In front, here, there's a blade of eelgrass and another of red algae.

#NewSpecies!
New amphipod from #panama just surfaced:

Podocerus offucia

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0525432E-5411-5290-A814-C02C34AEB37D
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1234.145826
#ZooKeys #PodocerusOffucia

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #crustaceae #amphipoda #amphipods

Western White-Ribboned Carpet Moth. (What a name for a fluttering outdoor flier!) On a huckleberry bush at the edge of the dark forest. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/04/bycatch.html #VancouverIsland #Invertebrates #Moths #Insects

Against a dark, almost black forest background, huckleberry branches glow in the sunlight. Small, bright green leaves, green stems, tiny, pinkish upside-down urn-shaped flowers. In front of the huckleberry, a white moth spreads its wings. The centre and tips of the front wings have black and brown patterns; the rear wings are blazing white.

Male and female #orangetip #butterflies.

#nature #naturephotography #wildlife #invertebrates #insects #lepidoptera #butterfly #sexualdimorphism #CountyDown #NorthernIreland @ukbutterflies

Orange-Tip #butterfly #egg on #GarlicMustard.

#nature #naturephotography #wildlife #invertebrates #insect #lepidoptera #spring @ukbutterflies

Intrepid. A young hairy hermit crab climbs up the glass wall of his tank, holding on to the tiny specks of algae that grow on the sealant at the edge. #InverteFest #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit

A hermit crab at the corner of an aquarium, climbing vertically, his bottom towards the right edge of the glass. Two narrow vertical lines of pale tank sealant speckled with sand-grain sized dark green algae are all that he has to hold on to. The hermit is mostly yellowish green, with white tips on his large cheliped and white patches on his legs. He wears a small, dark grey shell. He carries his antennae stretched out to the sides; his eyes on stalks stare straight at us. Uprights at the right edge of the photo are the end of the side wall.

Shopping trip. A freshly-molted hairy hermit looks over the available vacant shells. Which one will she choose? #InverteFest #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit

Perched in a tangle of brown root-like sticks (possibly part of a holdfast), an orange and brown hermit crab, naked, looks down on a collection of shells. Without a protective shell, her soft abdomen, coiled on the right side of her body, is a tempting treat for any passing crab. She must choose one of those shells below soon; there are 3 long, narrow mudsnail shells, striped in brown and white. (I don't think she cares about the colour, though.) There are several larger whelk shells, probably too big for her at this molt. She's about to touch the white shell in front with her antennae; maybe this will be the one she'll try on first.

I'm not a traditional gardener. I don't really care that things are growing that I didn't plant. So long as the things I did are doing okay. I'm not working towards maximum yield. I don't care if it's all a bit unstructured. I see wildplants and invertebrates happily thriving, and it makes me happy too. There's plenty of room for all of us. Even in this small space.
#gardening #plants #invertebrates #nature #scotland

Critter stack; periwinkle snails, hairy hermit crab (with food pellet), oyster, busy filtering the water. #InverteFest #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit

Critter stack: Top to bottom: a periwinkle snail, facing us, its two black tentacles with the eye at the base visible below the shell. Next, a Hairy hermit crab, orange and green, with striped eyes on stalks projecting in our direction, holding a food pellet in his mouthparts. Bottom; an oyster, open, showing the toothed edge of the mantle and the gills inside. There's a second periwinkle snail beside the hermit crab. Background, green algae, eelgrass.

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'on the road'

eigentlich wollte ich da ja SOFORT die springschnecke https://troet.cafe/@b_age/112540500553541276 nehmen, aber die hatte ich hier schon mehrfach, damals 😬

#invertebrates #NotAnInsect #arthropoda #myriapoda #krabbeltierchen #AuwaldRunde #nature #millipede