Beautiful Critters

“Nymphon grossipes (sea spider) males carrying their precious eggs

Gonionemus vertens - “Most dangerous hydrozoan jelly in the Japan sea”

Pterosyllis finmarchica - A species of marine worm

“Phromnia rosea, or flatid leaf bug. When the Flatid Leaf Bugs are in this nymph stage they excrete this white punky wax like substance as a protection mechanism against birds” - Panoramino

“They say you are what you eat, and it’s especially true with the translucent ants. Scientist Mohamed Babu from Mysore, India, placed specially colored sugar drops in his garden to attract the weird insects his wife found near the house sipping the spilled milk.

Some of the ants would even move from one color to another resulting in new color combinations in their stomachs.”