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summer's meant more bugs in the open air but i'll always say hi to the worms in the logs
apologies for the fuzzy video through the plastic, but I thought you’d all like to see this little cow clean his leggies
02.01 eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)
Was actually looking for some bearded reedlings I spotted a while back, but there are many other exciting creatures in the reeds, too.
This blue tit was having lunch.
one of the most impressive animals I met this year was a huge platyrhacid millipede, found chugging through some bamboo leaf litter in Malaysia.
he was a pleasant weight to hold in the hand, but spread out over so many gentle, graceful legs. the video offers a nice look at his eyeless face—all polydesmidan millipedes lack eyes.
I only hung onto this animated spinal cord for about thirty seconds before setting him back in the leaves, but I recall this encounter so vividly. a truly memorable creature

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look at the absolute size of this archimantis!!!!!!!!
look at the mantis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I met some relatives of my beloved leatherleaf slugs in the mangroves of Singapore, the onch slugs! they’re perhaps some of the slowest-moving animals I’ve ever encountered; this is one in a hurry:
the species pictured is a Platevindex, which are particularly interesting to me since their backs are studded with extra eyes! the dorsal papillae each have a little black dot that’s a photoreceptor, which helps the slug detect changes in light exposure.
onchidiids are marine animals, living on costal rocks and in mangroves, but breathe air and spend much of their time out of the water. like the leatherleafs, they’ve got a dry, tough hide that maintains water balance, but Platevindex takes that to an extreme—when I picked one up, it felt like a vulcanized rubber tire!
I also saw some nice leatherleaf slugs this summer, although I missed out a cute target of mine, Atopos, which is a snail-eating leatherleaf relative in the Rathouisiidae.
Semperula sp.
Valiguna flava
onch slugs on one branch and leatherleafs plus rathouisiids on another make up the Systellommatophora, a grouping of gastropods that are the closest relatives to the more common stalk-eyed fellows like garden snails. unlike the other land snails/slugs, systellommatophorans have no living species with a shell and have some of the most de-spiralized bodies of any gastropod. I like to call them “perfect slugs” for this reason
hammerhead flatworms (Bipaliinae) are in my estimation among the most beautiful terrestrial animals, often sporting bright colors and striking patterns that advertise their toxicity.
bipaliines feed on either worms or land gastropods, tracking the slime trails of prey with their highly sensitive spade- or crescent-shaped head plate.
Southeast Asia is a hotspot for bipaliine diversity, and at least six species can be found in Singapore, all of which I managed to encounter this summer!
They are absolutely beautiful! How cool it would be to see them in their native habitat. Unfortunate news for Americans, though: the USDA lists hammerhead worms as invasive species and, importantly, a threat to earthworms, which are ciritcal for our native ecosystems. https://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/terrestrial/invertebrates/hammerhead-worm
Although they are beautiful, this website gives advice on what to do if you see one in the US.
https://news.vt.edu/articles/2023/08/hammerhead_worms_expert.html
earthworms aren’t native either; on the east coast where most of the Bipalium have invaded there are a handful of native species in the mountains but every worm in your garden is almost certainly an old world species and just as nonnative as the bips. Lumbricus, Allolobophora, Aporrectodea, Eisenia, Octolasion—the lot of ‘em.
it’s never so simple as “Nonnative = Bad Except When USDA Says It’s Ok.”
I’m fairly mistrustful of the idea earthworms and honeybees and the like are beneficial to ecosystems they’re not native to. they may certainly be beneficial to humans, providing honey, produce, and compost, but there’s little information about how earthworms and other European detritivores have probably irreversibly changed the whole leaf litter ecosystem of North American forests since the 1500s.
however, the one bit of concern I have over Bipalium seems to work with the fact that earthworms are destructive nonnative species as well: Bipalium adventitium, B. kewense, and B. pennsylvanicum selectively eat tender European earthworms and avoid the Asian Amynthas, which might’ve coevolved with Bipalium and thus has tough, impenetrable skin. Amythas, though, strips forest floors bare of leaf litter and is less edible to some of the native animals that have come to depend on earthworms for food. therefore, by taking out the competition while leaving Amynthas alone, bips might be amplifying the effects of other nonnative species. I’m not exactly sure what can be done in that situation, but I doubt killing individual worms is going to have any affect at all—it’s not like that worked for the lanternflies.
My family has started calling my cat "the beast" which is very funny considering she's a 19yo arthritic old lady who needs help up and down the stairs. Not to mention she doesn't really meow any more, just sits and stares at you, and im the only one who can reliably guess what she wants, so my parents are constantly messaging me "The beast awakens... I know not what she desires 😥😥" i feel like the chosen prophet of an eldritch god

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Waldboden mit Fliegenpilz und Salamander, 1940
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