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Very messy late-night scribblings of some of the harvestmen that keep hanging around the front door of the house where I live.

It is hard to put much in the way of detail in a little creature that is about 90% leg, and very thin, hair-like leg at that.

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Drawing some ferns (this one is Hymenophyllum nephrophyllum/Kidney fern)

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Seasonal sixteen-legged sexy-times! #FenecpostOfTheWeek

Well… fourteen-legged, but nobody's perfect. ^_^

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It is Anguilla dieffenbachii btw

Another creature that seemed to want to eat my camera

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A harvestman (Opiliones sp.)

by Verheyen Stefan

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These guys are absolutely adorable.

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Another creature that seemed to want to eat my camera

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a sweet-faced pied harvestman, Libitoides sayii

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My favourite silly vertebrate photo I've got is definitely this one though

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The approaching Weka

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Fern I saw recently with a very strange branching pattern

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to start the year nicely: i'm currently available for some work on scientific illustrations and paleo reconstructions! I work with both extant and extinct animals, so it's pretty much anything you want (yes, including OCs, if they're not too fantasy-like; hovewer, i will prioritize science-based work). Here are some of my recent works to see!

The prices for simple reconstructions (simple background, no scenery; like Eohippus pair or three Psittacosaurus above) start somewhere at 300-400 EUR, but everything depends on the work and level of render, we can always discuss it🌱 You can contact me here or on Bsky! And please, be aware or scamm*rs - I won't contact you first and I won't ask for money if you didn't contact me in the first place! I only take payment through Boosty rn. Thank you! ☁

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#2340 - Phlegmariurus varius - Hanging Clubmoss

AKA Huperzia billardieri, desvauxii, novae-zelandica and varia Lycopodium billardierei, flagellaria, novae-zelandicum, pachystachyum, phlegmaria, varium and selago var. varium, Urostachys billardieri and Urostachys varius. At least one of the botanists seems to have tried to forestall the taxonomic splitters by calling it 'variable' but judging by the range of synonyms there it doesn't look like it stuck, at least until the most recent revision. Phlegmariurus billardierei is now its own distinct species, as well, and the only one in the family endemic to New Zealand. varius is also found in Australia, and on some nearish islands. And it may have to be split into more species anyway, since some distinctive forms are stable in cultivation. As of June 2024, the Checklist of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World accepted over 300 species in the genus.

The colour of this clubmoss varies from green to orange. Sterile ground-dwelling plants can be confused with other clubmosses, which probly contributed to some of the confusion above.

The Huperzioideae have erect rather than creeping growth forms, and their spore-bearing structures are in the axils of unmodified leaves, rather than in the terminal club-like structures that give other lycopods their common name.

It has 256 chromosomes.

Whakapapa Village, North Island Volcanic Plateau, New Zealand

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Lycophytes my beloved

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Love when you see a weird bug you've never seen before so you let it bite you (it wants to drink your blood) so that it stays still to get a photo... then 2 weeks later you still have an itchy spot on your hand and it's like oooooooooooops perhaps I should not have let that creature eat me...

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This treacherous and sinister creature followed me while I was lifting up debris on the ground looking for Pianoa... you do NOT get to eat it!!