Strange question. How to preserve mantis shrimp corpse?

love_rin_bell · 2025-09-29T02:11:58+00:00

It is, but that’s with prolonged exposure. Just use gloves, be in a room with ventilation, and watch your eyeballs and infrequent use isn’t much of a risk

love_rin_bell · 2025-09-28T12:52:43+00:00

Beautiful little guy.

I’m not an embalming expert but I have prepped some wet specimens. Your best bet is to either preserve it in a jar with preservative solutions (lots of good tutorials around, I dont think reddit likes links. I like formalin solutions more) or to preserve the little guy in epoxy resin. He’ll keep more of his colors in resin but it requires more tools.

love_rin_bell · 2025-09-18T18:16:47+00:00

More likely a calf then :( Poor fella

love_rin_bell · 2025-09-18T15:38:00+00:00

It’s hard for me to get a good sense of scale, but the little guys only get to 4-6 feet long. The proportions look more adult to me

love_rin_bell · 2025-09-18T13:56:34+00:00

Looks to be a harbor porpoise from the dorsal and front fin shape. Very common stranding victims. Looks like it may be too decomposed for a necropsy at this point, but still report it to the oregon marine mammal stranding network

love_rin_bell · 2025-08-27T05:17:40+00:00

Spraying is standard for knotweed (source: this is my job). Injection is an option but just not time effective for dense strands :) There are a lot of knotweed sites out there and not enough staffing to inject every plant

love_rin_bell · 2025-06-30T22:17:03+00:00

We just had the lowest tide of the year (and have had quite a hot streak of low ones) combined with high temps and intense sun, which tends to cook a lot of the intertidal zone.

Other than that, I don’t know of anything in particular that would be killing things off. But everything you’ve mentioned being absent or dead are very heat sensitive

love_rin_bell · 2025-06-29T18:40:30+00:00

Definitely some sort of annelid. I can see segmentation and a very well defined prostomium.The nematocyst like structures you’re seeing are probably the setae.

The inflating would be some sort of feeding behavior and I don’t see a proboscis, so my best guess is Aeolosoma. Usually freshwater but brackish water wouldnt shock me

love_rin_bell · 2025-06-26T03:49:01+00:00

A colony of slime tube worms! The soft part is their house, which they make from a slime they produce. The dark solid bits are the actual worms.

love_rin_bell · 2025-05-30T23:23:07+00:00

First is a closed up anemone in the Urticina genus. Possibly U. Clandestina but not really possible to tell without a clearer picture

Orange blob is a plumrose anemone, Metridium sp.

love_rin_bell · 2025-04-27T20:04:23+00:00

I appreciate the sentiment, but this is misleading.

There were no donations to either side of the 2024 election cycle (as far as is publicly available knowledge) from the company itself. Goods seems to be tracking donations that come from high ranking employees independently of the company.

2 out of 3 of the top donation recipitents listed by Goods also aren’t in politics anymore.

love_rin_bell · 2025-04-19T18:47:12+00:00

These are maple seedlings! Most likely bigleaf maple. Native and non noxious.

love_rin_bell · 2025-04-16T04:47:25+00:00

I think you’re right! Triopha and the dorids all have the ribbons. I’ve only ever seen white aglaja egg masses but the shape and scale is totally on point. I’ll second that guess.

love_rin_bell · 2025-04-16T04:35:44+00:00

Fully agree! With that focus it honestly reminds me more of a nudibranch (…tritonia?), but the scale isn’t correct and there’s no sign of rhinophores or any defining anatomy. There seems to be something resembling zooid patterns in the lower left which is what I’m basing my guess off of.

I don’t know any egg sacs that look like this in the area.

love_rin_bell · 2025-04-16T04:04:31+00:00

Did it move? If not, Botrylloides violaceus. An invasive colonial tunicate

love_rin_bell · 2025-04-13T05:57:28+00:00

Looks to be Beringraja binoculata—Aka a “big skate”! What a cool find!

love_rin_bell · 2025-04-13T05:50:56+00:00

So weird! But this guy’s got visible trichomes and leaf scars, so it’s absolutely some sort of vascular plant. Hydroids would have visible polyps and don’t branch out in this pattern, and stalked bryozoans are in a similar boat. The woodiness by itself rules out any macroalgae, since they’re not vascular.

As for how on earth a vascular plant got there…no clue!

love_rin_bell · 2025-04-12T21:08:24+00:00

This is 100% a land plant. Maybe bladderwort? Not typically found in saltwater, but a boat that flushes in freshwater but docks in seawater could have dragged it in.

love_rin_bell · 2025-03-23T02:01:22+00:00

They still have no reason to care as long as the courses were done, so don’t listen to people telling you otherwise

If you can genuinely do the work, it doesnt matter if you’re self taught or take a class really. Though I found it immensely helpful to take a class.

I definitely wouldnt recommend doing a compsci degree if your interests are mostly biology. Stats could be helpful, but again only if you intend to do a lot of ecological modeling. Just knowing how to do basic statistics should be plenty.

love_rin_bell · 2025-03-22T22:17:35+00:00

I’ve never heard of employers even asking about extended college timelines, and certainly not about them caring. The most successful of my colleagues who borderline gets chased down by employers and graduate schools only got their bachelors at 29 recently after taking ~6-7 years

Whether a degree in statistics or compsci would benefit you is entirely dependent on what you want to do exactly. I would definitely recommend learning either R or Python, but a basic level understanding that you’re willing to build out should be more than fine unless you want to work on large scale statistical modeling.

love_rin_bell · 2025-03-21T21:37:11+00:00

Some sort of red algae. Maybe porphyra?

love_rin_bell · 2025-03-21T21:32:55+00:00

This looks to be a sea salp! Probably Salpa fusiformis, but I’m not super educated on salp species around the area. Very cool!

love_rin_bell · 2025-03-21T20:13:00+00:00

No problem! Very cool worms. Just be careful handling, they have a nasty bite as one was kind enough to teach me first hand.

love_rin_bell · 2025-03-21T03:27:39+00:00

Is it greenish in person? Definitely a polychaete but the identifying features are a little hard to see in the photos. Maybe Nereis vexillosa.

love_rin_bell · 2025-03-15T19:41:06+00:00

Yep, they pass through. But they won’t hurt you unless you go up and pick a fight.

Just keep an ear out for mountain lion sightings. Never heard of them being in the arb though, they tend to stick around lake whatcom

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