Spiders
Eight legs, silk stronger than steel weight for weight, and a lot of undeserved bad press.
Field station · minibeast wing
Small animals, looked at closely, by people who checked.
critters.im is the minibeast hub of the ReallyByte animals network: insects, spiders, woodlice, centipedes, snails, slugs, worms and water bears. Every fact on this site has a source, and every photo is public domain or CC0.
Every adult insect has a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes and one pair of antennae. [source]
Specimen of the day
The specimen drawer
Each kind of critter gets its own site, and its own slot in the drawer. No critter sites are open yet. The dashed slots are being surveyed and are clearly marked Coming soon.
Beetles
Armoured wing-cases, stag beetles, glow-worms and fireflies. The “little biters”, by name at least.
Butterflies & moths
Eyespots, hissing wings, caterpillars and some very long journeys.
Snails & slugs
Tongues that work like files, shells with chalky doors, and slugs that mate on a rope of slime.
Ants
Fungus farmers, formic-acid sprayers and the fastest-snapping jaws in the animal kingdom.
Dragonflies
Underwater hunters that grow up into aerial ones, with nearly 24,000 tiny units in each eye.
The drawer and the cards are built from network.json.
Have a rummage
Exhibit 01
The fact cabinet
18 pinned critters, and every fact comes with its source.
Exhibit 02Myths, squashed
Eight things everyone “knows” about creepy-crawlies that aren’t so.
Exhibit 03Count the legs
The quickest way to tell an insect from a spider from a woodlouse.
Exhibit 04Bug hunting
The kit, the places to look, and the code: everything goes back where you found it.
GameThe Minibeast Quiz
Ten questions, all sourced. No leaderboard shame.
Support
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The shop and the studio
ReallyByte shop on Etsy
Prints, bits and bobs, and no live animals. Ever.
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The studio behind the network.
Sister hub critters.im is part of the Animals.im family. For owls, sharks, hedgehogs, bees and the rest of the animal kingdom: Visit Animals.im →