Cute Snapping Shrimp in the MesoAmerican Reef! These little critters have one large claw they snap shut, which creates a vacuum bubble that explodes, which makes a loud pop sound. Never underestimate a shrimp. #InverteFest

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Little sketch for the end of #InverteFest Night night 😴

Stained glass caddisfly (by me). #InverteFest etsy.me/3Htmntb

After years of chasing, I finally found a Myopa sp. fly (M. vicaria maybe?) willing to sit for photographs. The morphology and life history of these goofy-looking flies are fascinating, and I was thrilled to finally photograph one. #InverteFest

Winding down #InverteFest at the front door light with this fancy pants planthopper. A nymph of Thionia sp. (Issidae) I believe.

At a beach of a late summer. Some invertebrate friends to meet. #InverteFest becomes #MolluskMonday. #MolluscMonday

Stripy Winged Sausage-fest Male wasps of some species are known to bundle up together in numbers and I've seen this behavior before many times, but never anything close to this quantity. Maybe 50 total. #InverteFest 4/30/23. N. Florida

Cute crabes. I shall adop them. #InverteFest

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Lots of male flies seem to have heads made of 99% compound eyes, but the green horsefly boys seem like 110% eye. Imagine a magnificent hunk of human male, just with 2 giant eyes peering at you from where a head would be. Or don't. That's probably best. #InverteFest 4/30/23

#EmotionalSupportSpood Baby Phids, y'all. 🥹 4/29/23 #InverteFest

insect cw // congregation cw // Today saw some busy little ants doing busy little ant things! #InverteFest