I’m not 100% sure on a specific species for this Hydroid Crab, but this is another form of interesting camouflage found on the reef. Hydroids are kind of like corals in that they use stinging cells to catch their food, but unlike corals they do…
Category: Nature
Again – like the other jumping spiders I found in Bali, I have no clue what the name is for this spider (if there even is one), but with that yellow coloring and the black stripes, I figured I’d call it a Bumblebee Jumping Spider.
Unlike the previous photo I shared of one of these Merrem’s Madagascar Swifts, this little guy was hiding in a crack in the wood, but still allowed for a nice photo…
While I was in Bali, I would make a point to check any sea stars I saw – especially ones with damaged or missing arms – to see if I could find any Harlequin Shrimp as they prey on sea stars. That was how I…
I’ve gotten better at getting photos of shrimp gobies and their burrow-mate shrimps, but maybe one of these days I’ll get some decent video since it is fun to watch the shrimp do the excavation work on the burrows. I did look this one up…
I have shared other photos of other boxfish previously including one I think I mis-identified, but I am almost certain that this is a female Solor Boxfish (Ostracion solorensis) also known as the Reticulate Boxfish. I did some quick searching and can’t figure out why…
Well, it looks like a nice benefit of my new method for selecting photos to share means that I will likely dig into the archives a bit more frequently… which means I get to correct the issue of having only shared one photo of this…
I am sorry I haven’t been posting anything recently – it has been a bit difficult mustering the motivation these days. Today I came up with an idea to help me change that, and I now have a way to help me eliminate the difficulty…
I spotted this while out on a recent hike and instantly knew I should take some photos… And I also took a quick shot from a distance to show what I was actually photographing…
Not exactly sure which species of guard crab this is (even with my ID books), but I like the super aggressive posturing by such a relatively tiny animal.
This species of shrimp has been on my list of ones I was hoping to see some day, but they’ve been quite elusive… so imagine my surprise when we found multiple of them on the same dive… and not just in the same spot, but…
Another closeup shot of that coconut octopus from the other day…
A handful of dragonflies photographed at Jiwa Damai…
A beautifully patterned flatworm spotted by one of the volunteers in Timor Leste, this Persian Carpet Flatworm (Pseudobiceros bedfordi) actually looked a bit more metallic in the water, but the photos didn’t pick it up completely.
