What if Maomao got reborn as a dude in Japan

Finally got the latest volume of my favourite fashion catalogue

Jaadugar is, hands down, the best show I've been watching this season

Hot iridescent worms in your area, Lurking in karstic caves, Slithering out of cave crickets 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2025/12/gord...

<i>Gordius wulingensis</i>

Horsehair worms are a menace to crickets (as well as mantis , millipedes , and centipedes ) everywhere. Imagine being a cricket going about ...

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Gelis agilis is a wingless wasp that gives other parasitoid wasps the heebie jeebies. It's a hyperparasitoid that parasitises the cocoons of parasitoids, and it protects itself with a full spectrum ant disguise 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2015/02/geli...

<i>Gelis agilis</i>

It's a bug-eat-bug world out there and the same applies to parasitic wasps - even parasites can themselves become parasitised - which is wh...

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It's been a while since I read the first few volumes of Kaiju Girl Caramelise so I wasn't prepared for how the anime would hit me emotionally like a kaiju tail slap

I've written a post about Echinomermella matsi, a roundworm which parasitises sea urchins. This worm can castrate or even reduce the lifespan of sea urchins, and this is a story about how these worms turned parasitic over the course of their evolution 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2026/07/echi...

<i>Echinomermella matsi</i>

Nematodes (roundworms) just can't get enough of being parasites. Parasitism has independently evolved at least fifteen times among nematode...

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New name just dropped for annoying bluesky dudes

I gave a presentation about the weird and wonderful world of parasitic crustaceans for the Malibu Divers. I talked about parasitic barnacles, tongue-biter parasites, monstrous copepods, and more! 🧪 You can check out the recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FTf...

🌊 The Ocean's Weirdest and Bizarre Evolution of Parasitic Crustaceans | Dr. Tommy Leung

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Meet Inna the Polypodium Monster Girl. In return for sacrificing some of their eggs to serve as vessels for her seeds, Inna will protect these ancient armoured fishes and place a curse on those who covet the fishes' roe. #Invertebrate #MonsterGirl #OC #Art www.deviantart.com/the-episiarc...

They made a ball joint doll that has the same fashion sense as mine

Before joining Bluesky, I was about to quit microblogging social media sites for good. And between bsky labelling my posts "NSFL" and not being able to use Chat, I have plenty of reasons to leave. So if this happens to me, then ADIOS - I'm gone Y'all know where to find me from my pinned post.

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Well i dont know how long this login session is gonna last but @bsky.app just asked me to do an age verification with personal information. If this happens again i will not attempt to log back in. If i dont post here again let bsky know that i prefer my privacy over this platform.

In preparation for a presentation I'll be giving in about a week, I made this little animation (in PowerPoint) to explain sex determination in tongue-biter isopods 🧪 #SciArt

Nucleariids are a group of single-celled amoeboid organisms which are related to Fungi. One species, Fonticula alba, was initially classified as a type of slime mould, because it behaves like slime moulds by forming multi-cellular aggregates and fruiting bodies 🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Neella sp. are plant bugs which are usually pest for plants, but Syngonium hastiferum turns the table on the bugs by purposefully attracting them, and using the bugs as pollinators 🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol...

The Secret Life of Lathraea: I've written a post about the common toothwort (Lathraea squamaria), a parasitic plant which parasitises deciduous trees and is mostly found in alluvial and ravine forests. 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2026/06/lath...

<i>Lathraea squamaria</i>

When it comes to parasites, for most people it is a case of "out of sight, out of mind", and that especially applies to holoparasitic plants...

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When rhizocephalan barnacles end up infecting a male crab, they routinely forcefem their hosts - but some crab species are more susceptible to rhizocephalan forcefem than others 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Dragon vs Flies: This paper report on the first documented case of myiasis (maggot infestation) on a Komodo Dragon. The maggots were identified as Chrysomya rufifacies - a species of blow fly known to infest cattle and sheep 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Monster girls with four legs and strongly held opinions #oc #monstergirl

Blood-suckers with fancy taste: In January, there was a sudden mass die-off Mi-iuy Croakers at a fish farm off the coast of Raoping County. So who was the culprit? Turns out it was Limnotrachelobdella okae, a species of big leech which loves fish blood 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2026/01/limn...

<i>Limnotrachelobdella okae</i>

Do you like eating fish? Well so do some leeches. Most people only know about the leeches that feed on humans, but there are also numerous o...

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These two are having a cunt-off

These vegetable/fruit animal gashapon toys are so adorable ❤️ - the little creatures that @ponkichim.bsky.social designed are so consistently cute and charming 🥰

Millennial STUNS students by lecturing in fluent zoomer

More practice flies

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Got a Wacom tablet recently and since I've never drawn on a tablet before, I've been practising by drawing fishing flies

This wolf spider wandered into my house and my first instinct was to say "HELLO!" and started talking to it like it was a street cat 🕷️

Pop Goes the Water Bear: I've written a post about Sorochytrium milnesiophthora - a chytrid fungus that infects tardigrades, and how their water bear-slaying might actually be helping other microscopic animals that live on the surface of lichens. 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2026/05/soro...

<i>Sorochytrium milnesiophthora</i>

Tardigrades (also known as "water bears") have built up a reputation for being pretty much invulnerable  (even though Bdelloid rotifers does...

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Once again, I'm thinking about those two pugnose eels that were found in the heart of a mako shark 🦈🧪 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

#GirlsFrontline

Got a Wacom tablet recently and since I've never drawn on a tablet before, I've been practising by drawing fishing flies

The deep sea is home to various parasitic nematodes, and for many of them, we don't know what they infect. Trophomera is a genus of nematodes which live >7000 m below sea level, where they infect amphipods, priapuplids, mussels, and even other nematodes 🧪 dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2016/04/trop...

<i>Trophomera marionensis</i>

This planet is full of parasites, and no matter what you are or where you live, there seems to be no escape from getting parasitised. A few ...

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