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I have an instagram

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And I’m more active there :) If you follow me there, let me know and I’ll follow you back!

#bugblr #petblr #insects #reptiblr

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brom baby

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Praying Mantis Nymph (Tropidomantis (Eomantis) sp., Iridopterygidae) by Sinobug (itchydogimages) on Flickr. Pu'er, Yunnan, China See more Chinese praying mantids on my Flickr site HERE…..

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Avicularia versicolor (Antilles pink-toe tarantula)

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Cherry Shrimp Tank  ❥◉

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30l shrimp tank after a water change.

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Wuuuurms

thought I’d get some good frozen food for my critters while I’m treating with meds.

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an expert’s guide on cleaning aquarium glass

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Rainbow darters from SW MO , not a game fish, but very beautiful. Found here

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Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens | Green Bottle Blue (juvenile female, ~4.5″) “Agua”

See more photos of this species here!

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Bug of the Day

I remember being so excited by the odd-looking scarab beetle that @eumorpha-dream and I found last July, but then I accidentally dumped him in a dirty container so the photos came out pretty cruddy. Plus I never got his cute little horn in focus, so this remained buried in the archives until now. This is an earth-boring scarab beetle, Odonteus liebecki, a new genus and species for the yard.

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Some real fukin tiny slug

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Baby sewellia spotted and an old dead snail shell.

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Some lovely Java moss and my favorite aquarium plant in the background (Windeløv Java fern).

How to grow aquarium moss

Full Java fern caresheet

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Fried Egg Jellyfish Are Kind of Adorable – & That’s No Yolk.

There are two species that hold the whimsical title of “Fried Egg Jellyfish”: Phacellophora camtschatica and Cotylorhiza tuberculata though the two are quite different from each other in all aspects beside appearance.

Phacellophora camtschatica is a huge jelly that prefers colder waters. It’s bell can reach up to 2 ft across and its dozens of tentacles reach over 20 ft long! If you don’t think this floating egg creature looks very menacing, you’d be right. It has a very weak sting and many small crustaceans take advantage of the jelly by riding on its bell (breakfast to go…?) while snatching up extra food.

Cotylorhiza tuberculata is a much smaller jellyfish that hangs out in warmer waters. It only reaches about 35 cm in diameter, so don’t go for this Fried Egg Jelly if you want a big breakfast. Unlike most jellyfish, C. tuberculata can swim on its own, without relying on the currents for movement. It’s sting (if you can even call it that) is so feeble that it has very little to no effect on humans at all. I mean, it does look like a breakfast food, after all… how powerful could it be? 

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Photography by botanygeek

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Hello world, my name is Da Vinci. I moved into my new home yesterday! I have a planted 9 gallon tank. You can see how small I am next to my heater. My mom tried to take video of me, but I’m too fast for her!

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