# blind # artist , # ecologist , and occasional # author . enby she/they. reformed physicist. defender of lost causes. mostly # bugs Jetzt in Deutschland! header: a sleeping bee, curled up inside a yellow flower. profile pic: drawing of a person with an octopus wrapped around their head, covering their eyes.
# blind # artist , # ecologist , and occasional # author . enby she/they. reformed physicist. defender of lost causes. mostly # bugs Jetzt in Deutschland! header: a sleeping bee, curled up inside a yellow flower. profile pic: drawing of a person with an octopus wrapped around their head, covering their eyes.
Today for #MarshMadness I've painted a marsh springtail, Isotomurus palustris. Springtails are not insects but their own class of hexapods called Collembola. They are named for the tail-like appendage (furcula) which is held under tension beneath the abdomen. When released it snaps against the ground, propelling the springtail through the air.