Endless Forms Most Beautiful

[Trausti]

There's aplenty creepy-crawlies that few of us ever see and look as if from alien worlds. Post them here.

 Planthopper Nymph

Pandea conica

Borneo Katydid

 Brownsnout_spookfish

Eulagisca gigantea

 

[Speakpigeon]

Thanks. I'm going to have nightmares now.
EB

 

[DBT]

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Lithops!

 

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Bobbit Worm

 

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Elephant Hawk Moth

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Lecanopteris mirabilis with a 1 foot ruler

World's oddest fern? An epiphyte, in the wild, ants make their nests under this fern.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Nepenthes. Carnivorous pitcher plants.

 

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 Frilled_shark

 

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 Amazonian_royal_flycatcher

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

In cultivation the Escobaria sneedii v. leei will form beautiful large mounds with hundreds of small heads.

 

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 Saiga_antelope

 

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 Oriental_dwarf_kingfisher

 

[Malintent]

Nepenthes. Carnivorous pitcher plants.

I bet they smell bad...

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Nepenthes. Carnivorous pitcher plants.

I bet they smell bad...

When new and fresh they do not smell bad. Immature pitchers are sometimes used by locals as drinks. After they open and start catching small creatures, they start to smell bad due to decomposing carcasses of insects frogs, lizards, and mice.

 

[Emily Lake]

Jumping spiders with water hats.

 

[gmbteach]

 

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Larvae of the trilobite beetle

 

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orchis simia - monkey orchard

 

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Melibe leonina