sea critters,,,

Me, having a verbal shutdown this morning: *nods*

My beloved,,,

She’s a Philippine giant blue millipede I found chilling on a log. Took a bit to convince her to let me pick her up, but she was very polite and sociable before being returned to her detritus <3

This funni man woke me up at 4am on my first night with his yelling XD

Beetles 💥💥💥

A katydid(?) and some flavor of cute little Hemiptera(?)

And three back-to-back girls’ night outs, of which I can only send the second cuz Tumblr is gatekeeping my bug videos. The first two were for honey bees, and the third was flying ants who knew no boundaries.

Here’s some sea slugs from my stay with Marine Conservation Philippines in *cough* 2022 for your amusement

What I think these blorbos are (please educate me if I’m wrong XD):

Nudibranch capital of the world <333

Here’s my guesses for what these are:

(The coral variety by Sombrero Island in particular is just immaculate)