Here's a thread on how I make scientific illustrations for describing new species of invertebrates #sciencetwitter #art #science #illustration #taxonomy #teaminvert My favorite way to learn a new group of inverts is to describe & draw a new species. You have to do all this research on known species so you learn a lot. Then you do detailed drawings that ensure you learn each structure. Hard to forget something you spent hours drawing

Heres the story of how I volunteered to be infected with 50 parasitic worms (hookworm) for a year as part of a research study. Check out this thread & follow me for more #parasite & marine biology content [t]
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imgs: bit.ly/39FDQNe n.pr/3itKXwk 1st some background on the parasites I got. Hookworms are blood-feeding nematodes that live in the intestine of mammals including cats, dogs & humans. ~500 million people are infected with hookworm, mostly in tropical and subtropical areas including the southern USA

WHY STUDY #PARASITES?👇Imagine if your whole world was another animal 🤯 Follow me to learn more about these fascinating creatures 🤓 For more great #parasite content, check out some of my favorite parasitologists on Twitter:
@KellySpeer
@parasiteecology
@FuSchmu
@ParasiteGal
@The_Episiarch
and the American Society of Parasitologists: @AmSocParasit

TANTULOCARIDA: FEMALES AND MALES BECOME PREGNANT WITH CLONES OF THEMSELVES! Saving 1 of my favorite crustaceans for the last days of #Crustmas [a thread]. Among the smallest arthropods, tantulocarids are parasites of other micro-crustaceans
All imgs: researchgate.net/publication/26… Here you can see a male “pregnant” with a sexual adult stage of ITSELF in its abdomen! Hard to wrap your mind around how weird the life cycle of these animals is 🤯 [t/n]

#WormWednesday @JusttheZooofUs 😉