Welcome to the January 2012 edition of Circus of the Spineless.
It’s time to make New Year’s Resolutions. If you are having difficulty generating some of your own, try these Circus of the Spineless Resolutions.
Resolve to:
1. Take advantage of unexpected gifts, like an emperor shrimp.
Dive with The BlennyWatcher Blog to see emperor shrimp in action.
2. Stop and watch the butterflies.
Trees, Plants & More has photographs of the following butterflies:
red pierrot
mormons
common castor
grass yellows
3. Pay attention to caterpillars.
Slugyard has a cartoon caterpillar and the butterfly it becomes.
4. Be vigilant for invertebrates out of season.
Rebecca in the Woods has Unexpected Arthropods.
5. Get to know tiny spiders.
Be amazed at Brainy dust posted by Wanderin’ Weeta
6. Take the road most traveled, like leafcutter ants.
Lower Dover Field Journal offers information about leafcutters.
7. Be as flexible as a neon flying squid.
Squid A Day has A Neon Sign of Climate Change
8. Be environmentally responsible.
Wanderin’ Weeta has A Sad Post about water quality.
9. See the world, and Dicathais orbita egg capsules, with a bit of humour.
Medlar Comfits says, “I’ve always been terribly ambitious.”
10. Learn to blend into your surroundings, especially if they change.
Video from Nothing Here But A Hole in the Ocean… at The Artful Amoeba
11. Have a big heart (like a sea squirt).
Kevin Zelnio of Deep Sea News has a video of sea squirt facts.
12. Participate in next month’s Circus of the Spineless at Beasts in a Populous City.
Now those are some resolutions I can keep!
By the way, your link to the cartoon caterpillar goes nowhere. (I found it, though, through the link to the blog itself.)
Susannah,
Thank you so much for spotting that. I’ve got it fixed now.
Well, one out of twelve isn’t bad. The spider is a Uloborid, but that’s as far as I can get. The family is special because, although they have fangs, they do not have venom.
Awesome! Thanks for hosting, and nice organization.
I’ll bet Joe would know the spider in the unexpected arthropods blog, too – Tetragnatha,/i> sp.
Yah James, agreed, that spider is a Tetragnatha. I’ll leave more thoughts about the winter spider over there.