Planthopper nymph with a flashy AND practical butt for #invertebuttweek The iridescent hairs coming out of their rears detach if grabbed by predators, possibly giving them a chance to escape.
Hello yes you're probably familiar with carcinization at this point, but do you remember that crabs are basically shrimps with folded butts—essentially taco shrimps. #InverteButtWeek
You thought it was a ladybug? It was Paraplectana duodecimmaculata, the twelve-spotted ladybug mimic spider all along. This spider chills on leaves with its big pink butt pretending to be, well, ladybugs. Why ladybugs? Because they taste horrible. Trust me. #InverteButtWeek
Diving beetles can breathe underwater because of an air bubble on their butt! #invertebuttweek , with @MaureenBug
In 2017, a video from Indonesia went viral for showing a moth with "devil horns" on its butt. It was Creatonotos gangis—a moth known to have inflatable butt parts from hell called Coremata. It might look scary but it was, simply, a male moth longing for love. #InverteButtWeek
For #InverteButtWeek, here's an older comic about an incredible butt mimic, named in honor of ant scientist @DanielKronauer.
what better to draw for #InverteButtWeek than the invertebrate literally called the sexy shrimp
Cyclopyge is a trilobite with huge eyes that go around the cheek. They're so huge, sometimes the two eyes join in the middle. Plot twist: It's NOT named after cyclops. Cyclo-pyge means "round butt" — its butt is more noteworthy than its cyclops eyes, apparently. #InverteButtWeek
Ah, the beautiful butts of the sea. A few weeks ago, some twitter folks saw the news about a new marine worm that had 100 or more butts. We decided to collaborate on this comic. My co-conspirators here are @MaureenBug and @americanbeetles. #invertebuttweek
