found some sexy yellow-spotted millipedes amongst the redwoods 🌿

hello sweet little chonk 💛 I wonder if the feeding barnacles tickle their foot, assuming nudibranchs are ticklish

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here's one of the releases, I hold the bowl up to some kelp growing from the docks, wait for one of the nudibranchs to grab on, gently pull the bowl away, & with them luck!

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I posted this on my other account, but obviously it needs to be here: opalescent party!

a friend was cleaning the underside of his neglected skiff & he lets me relocate invertebrates 🧡

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look at this pair of cuties 🤍 when epiphytes & hydrozoans coat the kelp, it can be tricky finding dendronotid nudibranchs that are normally tiny & cryptic, but these were some large chonks!

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it's been awhile since I've hopped on this account, but I wanted to share that one of my favorite swimming predatory slugs is back on exhibit at the @montereyaq.bsky.social 💙 I always love seeing the sea angels, they are truly vicious little predators, well adapted to pelagic life

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hello tiny slimy friend 🧡 I enjoy the challenge of finding super small nudibranchs while dockfouling

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a snail veliger, very wiggle, very plankton

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scaled worm snail nomming

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there's been a strong shift from classically orange cerata to brown cerata in the opalescents I've been seeing on the docks this summer, which I find fascinating & wonder if it's genetic? environmental? dietary? a combination of factors?

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🎵 peanut worm, peanut worm, eats like a sea cucumber🎶 but peanut worm, peanut worm, you're not a sea cucumber 🎵 you're an annelid! 🎶 *sung to whatever Legend of Zelda tune is stuck in my head*

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