Anemones! Cyanotype from my underwater photo of aggregating anemones. A cool thing about these: they can reproduce by division, and the ones in this photo are probably all clones. #cyanotype#photography#underwaterphotography
The fluff from the anemones in your last photo is used by hummingbirds to build their nests in the spring, which is why I stopped deadheading my anemones.
Trying to live up to my "queen of cursèd doodles" title @dianateuthis.bsky.social #meowmay
This is in fact how many anemones reproduce! Would you call these anemonittens? Hmm...
More than a thousand varieties of Sea Anemones exist. What they all have in common are the deadly tentacles that capture their prey which they pull into their bodies. Because anemones can't chase prey they rely on their prey coming to them. Alki Point: 🦑
Come any closer and I'll sting you - Lybia tessellata holds anemones in specialized claws, using them to stun prey, mop up food & defensively. They can't survive without the anemones. If they lose one they'll clone the other by splitting it, or steal an anemone from another crab.
Still closed, and not a tide pool, but finally found some anemones for you! The tide was already working it's way back in by the time I took this, and there were probably happily back underwater before I even made it back to my motel.
I never knew there were anemones that bloomed so early. I used to have garden variety anemones in my (where else) gardens and it was great to see them bloom, the last flowers of the year, every fall.