TIL this variety of gynandromorph is possible 🤯 and in my favorite bee 💜
There aren't many mammals that are brightly colored, but under UV light it's a different story. Platypuses glow green!
#platypus #weird #fabulous #pride #SciArt
The world is full of ✨fabulous✨ animals, let's take a look at some of them this #PrideMonth!
The peacock spiders are a genus of small jumping spiders native to Australia. The males use bright colors and fancy footwork to attract mates.
#rainbow #SciArt #spider
I had a new book idea over the weekend
#mimic #octopus #doodles #camouflage
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Had a great time at the Bay Area Book Fest! Met some cool people, and got a lot of colorful contributions to the table!
#InsectsAtoZ #baybookfest #doodle
Happy National Alligator Day! 🐊
#SciArt #alligator #reptile #doodle
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The flamboyant cuttlefish often produces bright colors to stand out. It has a relatively small cuttlebone, so it's usually found strutting its stuff on the sea floor.
#flamboyantcuttlefish #cephalopod #fabulous #pride #SciArt
Menu doodles: crab edition 🦀☀️
#crab #crustacean #doodle
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#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Shared with me by a fof in SoCal - this is a gynandromorph (both male & female) valley carpenter bee (Xylocopa sonorina). Females are black, males orange, so the extreme color dimorphism really stands out. Per Doug Yanega at UC Riverside, bee gynandromorphs he’s seen are mosaic instead—
