OSTRACOD BE WITH YOU!

I had no idea it had been almost a year since my last post! Utterly shameful. I don't really know what happened- maybe I was stuck in a space-time continuum, or sucked through a black hole or even a worm hole. Speaking of worm holes, did you hear the joke about the polychaete and the sipunculid who walked into a bar? Me neither, but if you can come up with one I will send you this homemade milk chonch magnet (it's a photo I took and stuck on magnetic paper! wow-wee!)

I am sorry to say that I am going to be taking another indefinite absence from my blog. Too many projects on my plate at the moment and beginning to work on a little book filled with my marine invertebrate limericks (some from my blog but many new ones as well), complete with drawings and "nerd notes". Here is a photo of a rough-draft page:

Below is a photo of some invert goods I spotted in the wrack line on Wrightsville Beach (North Carolina). This was not a "posed" picture but a still life au naturel!

If you can answer the following questions correctly about the above photo I will send you this sea biscuit magnet (also a photo from a sea biscuit test I found snorkeling in Bahamas).


Ok, here we go:

Name the four phyla represented in the photo and the species name of the crab, and guess whether I was wearing shoes or not when I took the picture (hint: I never wear shoes on the beach).

GOOD LUCK and MAY OSTRACOD BE WITH YOU!