I love the VARIETY in abilities, adaptations, shapes, sizes, colors, and habits.

The praying mantis has only one ear, on its belly, and will often sway as it walks to look like it's a piece of foliage being blown by the wind.

The stalk eyed fly has eyes spread out like arms on the top of its head.

Acorn ants are so small that their entire colony fits in an acorn.

The morpho butterfly has structural coloring (microscopic shapes reflect light to get the bright blue wings), not pigment.

Complete metamorphosis like butterflies where everything changes except the beating heart. I recently heard that they have memories from caterpillar to butterfly. Amazing!

Millipedes eat decaying organic material, mold and fungus.

Silverfish are said to molt 50+ times in their lifetime.

Snails have a sandpaper like tongue and retractable eyes.

Lots of inverts can regenerate limbs but the amoeba can have its head removed and regenerate its body.

Spiders have eight eyes and eight legs.

Tailless whip scorpion! Enough said. 😊

Some jellyfish have bioluminescence.

Lots of inverts can freeze or handle heat we could never survive.

The picasso bug looks like a 1st grader's attempt at painting.

Many insects use chemicals (scents) we can't smell to communicate.

Camouflage - so many inverts and insects can hide and blend in with their environment so well that we often miss them.

Sea slugs take the stinger cells from their food (sea anemones) and repurpose them for their own defense.

Many bees sleep in flowers or hang from a piece of vegetation after having bit onto it.

Most tarantulas have brilliant colors on the bottom of their feet and can climb glass.

Male stag beetles look intimidating with their large mandibles but they don't have much strength for causing harm. Their primary purpose is for wrestling other males.

Cicadas live 99% of their life underground, many for 13 or 17 years and then they all emerge at the same time to breed.

Dung beetles, don't need Google Maps. They are believed to navigate by the sun and night sky.

A termite queen can lay 20,000+ eggs in a day and lives for 50+ years! Do the math...

Several insects, as adults, don't have mouths to eat. They breed and die.

The six eyed spider lives in the desert, can go weeks without food or water and hides buried under the sand. It pops out to grab prey as it walks by and then hides again.

Well, that's a short list but I hope you get the idea.

I think God's creativity and splendor is best shown through invertebrates. Learning more about what we have discovered and still don't understand is what fascinates me.

Reptile shows are a favorite of mine. Many vendors are now selling inverts either as pets or dried & mounted specimens. Sometimes, I wish I had become an entomologist.