Welp, it’s October, and as the weather gets colder in the Northern hemisphere, Halloween draws closer. In honor of spooky season, what are some organisms with a spooky color scheme, spooky name, or spooky behavior?

When I was a kid rubber and plastic spiders were a lot less accurate. Most had either 3 body parts or had the legs coming out of the abdomen. They are a lot better now.

That first photo is so creepy! I’m usually not bothered by anything but any time I see that species of harvestman I get the heebie jeebies bigtime.

I think they’re beautiful but one could consider bladderworts really creepy. Imagine being a daphnid swimming around seeing chandelier after chandelier of clear chambers containing your acquaintances slowly melting away, much less if you were sucked into one.

Seeing these plastic “lifers” after halloween, where kids drop some of them while trick-or-treating or they fall off decorations that are put away is both frightening since they’re unexpected and disappointing that they aren’t real organisms.

I will say it’s pretty damn creepy when you’re on the coast here, if you leave a small glass of tap water sitting for a few days you’ll begin to see tiny wormslike creatures growing in it, wait a week and it looks like something from X-Files. I would have uploaded an observation for this phenomenon…

No, black colored worms. I don’t know many virologists here, so I haven’t confirmed, but they’re mostly likely the cause, or related to one of the species that gives a lot of folks gastrointestinal problems in coastal communities, I usually refer to this as “Atahualpa’s revenge.” All joking aside…

Reminds me tells of when you put a feet in an infested pond, larvae of parasitic worms (cercariae) start fastly swimming to you.

Ah yes, everyone’s favorite vertebrate, the octopus.

Well… Spookfish, of course! [Dolichopteryx longipes, brownsnout spookfish3]

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