#Merulanellas

[pixelarthropods]

if you drew some isopods i would literally cry ;w;

Here's some of cute isopods! Also please don't cry when you see them. XD

This ones usually grow up to 20 mm. Their names are: Dairy Cow, Ember Bee, Thai Spiky, Blister Tricolor, Porcellio Werneri and Rubber Ducky! I hope you guys like it. ^^

Also I just realized Thai Spiky looks like Eevee kinda. Now I can't unsee that lol

[onenicebugperday]

Captive bred isopods via The Isopod Barracks on Facebook and Instagram

1. Merulanella sp. “Red Ember Bee” 2. Armadillidium werneri “Orange” 3. Armadillidium maculatum “Zebra” 4. Cubaris sp. “Cappuccino” 5. Cubaris sp. “Soil” 6. Cubaris sp. “Green Spot” 7-8. Unidentified species “Shiny Gator”

Photos shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

[porcellionides]

should i change my username...

[shadowthorne]

I got Merulanella sp tricolors for Christmas! They are precious and beautiful and I love them. The seller was a super nice guy too. We talked a bit for a few days and he said he was going to send me a little something extra and that something ended up being six white rubber duckies!

[couch-house]

second pass at a lil gang of isopod kids (8-12ish) that all hang out and play soccer together :) (refs and early sketch under the cut)

Fizzle is named for the common "Ember Bee" name for Merulanella species. Auguste is named after a type of clown-- klugii are also called "clown isopods." Sketch is a zebra isopod: black and white. Chucky is named for one of the common names for terrestrial isopods: chucky pigs. Clementine is named for the morph's orange color. Lydia is named after Lydia Deetz (and later Alec Baldwin) based on a common name of Porcellio expansis: the Beetlejuice isopod :)

[anyonghalimaw]

pachnoda marginata and merulanella sp. tricolor

[pillowspace]

um ok so u remember ur slug guys?? the c. nigricans??

uhm so I think I found the isopod equivalent and js thought I would share

(Merulanella 'yellow bees')

Oh wow, those actually are really alike. Isopod equivalent fr. That's so cool!!

[whatkindofsoupp]

Cubaris sp. “lemon blue”

Armadillidium gestroi

Armadillidium maculatum (zebra isopod)

Merulanella sp. “yellow bee”?

may i request some isopod pngs? any species or morph would be ok. perhaps a spread of them. thank you <3

[asurrogateblog]

OK, I know this might be kind of a weird question to ask, but what kind of bugs do you think the members of Pink Floyd are? (can be all the same type of bug or different bugs)

this sounds like a question that someone who knows me in real life would set as a trap to prove this blog is me

SO.

Rick - synchronous firefly (photinus carolinus) often goes unnoticed unless you're in the right place at the right time. invisible during the day, but when it performs, it's dazzling like nothing else. requires social reinforcement to do its best.

Roger - european paper wasp (polistes dominula) has a bad reputation, hated by many, yet still has a supportive community of wasp fans. persistent as fuck, but mostly harmless unless you really bother it. known for its skills in architecture.

David - black field cricket (teleogryllus commodus) one of the more normal ones, but is also cool and knows it. is not known for being aggressive but can put up a fight when it comes down to it. very musically talented

Nick - 'pink lambo' isopod (merulanella sp.) happy to be included as a bug. completely docile and gets along well with others, but still fun! when in danger, prefers to roll up and pretend the problem isn't there. named after a luxury car.

Syd - io moth (automeris io) bright and beautiful, yet often difficult to work with (they sting!). metamorphs into something drastically different than what you'd expect, but no less itself. known for its distinct 'eyes'

[onenicebugperday]

Tricolor isopods, Merulanella sp., Armadillidae

Captive bred by The Isopod Barracks on Facebook // Instagram

Photos shared with permission; please do not remove credit or re-post!

[crevicedwelling]

How do you handle ventilation in your tubs? Also, entirely different subject, what are some great isopods that don't belong to Armadilidium/Porcellio/Cubaris/Merulena?

I poke holes in plastic.

honestly, those are some of the least interesting isopod genera, if not only because most of the cool ones in the hobby labeled as Cubaris and Merulanella aren’t actually members of either genera. I’m basically going to list all of the ones I can think of in one minute because this question is sort of like asking “name a cool mammal that isn’t a goat, a hamster, a dog, or a pig” which is that the answer is All The Rest Of Them, Of Course

Armadillo, Venezillo (Armadillidae)

can hardly go wrong with any of the weird Australian ones, mostly armadillids; plus all the spiny ones like Laureola

Trachelipus (Trachelipodidae)

Cylisticus, Parcylisticus (Cylisticidae)

entire family Delatorreidae

many scleropactids are cool, too: Adinda, Scleropactes

[identifying-isopods-in-posts]

in the isopod gif, in order of appearance (excluding plushies)

Armadillidium vulgare “wild type”

Bathynomus giganteus

Bathynomus giganteus

Bathynomus giganteus

Bathynomus giganteus

Merulanella sp. “scarlet”

Armadillidium gestroi “wild type”

14, unsorted

[lsopod]

READ:

If you have a favorite morph/variant of isopod please specify in the tags + vote for whichever genus your favorite falls under please!

[robotzebra]

For day 26: Honorary. Here is a scarlet Isopod. I chose the scarlet isopod (Merulanella sp. "Scarlet") since it has a colouration that reminds me of some amphibians

[identifying-isopods-in-posts]

Merulanella sp. “scarlet”

[limbus-limousine]

Ik you're mostly a Sinclair poster (a very good one at that) but do you have any animal associations for Dante? Or any of the other sinners for that matter

YES YES ACTUALLY!!! SO HAPPY ABOUT THIS ASK...

I have a list of animal associations for project moon characters in general... I'm still working on it but I eventually want to get to background characters too like the optional ruina receptions etc. But currently these are my thoughts for limbus...

Dante: Merulanella blister/tricolor isopod (a perfect match if you ask me... very expensive collectionist morph too). This might change once we know more about them though!

For Verg and Charon I still have to think some up... But Charon is giving mustelid I must say

Yi Sang: Hooded crow + cicada

Dongbaek: Caramel crow!! (This would be a regular American crow, caramel is a mutation that's still being researched which gives them a creamy brown coloration)

Samjo: Great auk (extinct diver bird/penguin) + Royal tern + otter

Dongrang: African forest buffalo + blue roan shorthorn + Oxpecker + cattle egret

Faust: Rock ptarmigan + wooly aphid (still want to look for more...)

Don Quixote: Quagga + Bearded vulture + Monitor lizard

Ryoshu: Horned owl + Dragontail butterfly + Moth (still need to look into species) + ratsnake/black mamba (reference to Hell Screen)

Meursault: Honestly very hard choice... Mostly for personality reasons, I've been thinking of a Nurse shark + MAYBE badger (noctural + def. want an omnivore in there) + Clam or something

Hong Lu: Mantis shrimp + lemur + Sinosauropteryx (chinese compsognathid with conserved pigments of a ringed tail!)

Heathcliff: Aardwolf + Bronze-tailed peacock-pheasant (want to look for more too...)

Ishmael: Orca (only predator of whales) + kutchicetus (cetacean transitional fossil) + lobster

Ahab: Sperm whale + Narwhal + polar bear

Queequeg: Leopard seal

Rodya: Manul + Cozumel raccoon

Sonya: Leucistic amur leopard + Mediterranean fruit fly

Sinclair (more details...): Eurasian sparrowhawk + indeterminate canine traits. I imagine him as a bilateral gynandromorph (half male/female mutation), inspired by the real recorded specimens of lazuli buntings and canaries.

Demian: Malayan blue coral snake + Boelen's python + Luzon bleeding-heart dove. Pondering on lamb motif + maybe some traces of corvid

Kromer: Mountain lion + Hercules beetle grub + red headed centipede + some mantid perhaps (looking into it)

Outis: Przewalski's horse, or maybe a Mustang (debating, I'm not as informed about equines !) + Harris Hawk + Black headed python

Gregor: Painted trilobite cockroach (infestation) + Ensign wasp (main/original body) + House centipede