Volucella zonaria, the Hornet Mimic Hoverfly (info and image from Wikipedia)
Cover of The Sea Nymphs’ On The Dry Land (2016), with radiolarian skeletons
Good band-name, beautiful cover, but I don’t like the music. It’s interesting to compare a trimmed version of the cover:
Trimmed version of The Sea Nymphs’ On the Dry Land
Elsewhere Other-Accessible…
• On the Dry Land at Bandcamp
• Radiolaria at Wikipedia
Small yellow snail, possibly juvenile White-lipped Snail, Cepaea hortensis
Elsewhere Other-Accessible…
• Snail ID in UK — a good simple guide at the NHBS
The Leafy Seadragon, Phycodurus eques, from southern Australia (Wikipedia)
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum
Wikipedia says: “The generic name is derived from the Ancient Greek words φῦκος (phûkos) ‘seaweed’, and δέρμα (dérma) ‘skin’.” That’s obviously wrong for dérma, but I can’t find a definitive etymology.
The phosphorescent fungus Panellus stipticus, responsible for white rot (Wikipedia)
Post-Performative Post-Scriptum…
The title of this incendiary intervention is of course a core referencing of Sunn O)))’s classic album Insect Villain Monocrypt (2006).
Saturn through a 6″ telescope (Reddit)
Seedhead of a dandelion, Taraxacum sp., growing thru seat-slats of a bench
