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playdarkwater.bsky.social
You HAVE to fight one:
Bristleworm 🪱 or Angler Fish 🐟

Which opponent are you choosing?

#gamedev #survivalgame #indiehorrorgame
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
copperbora.bsky.social
Hey biology buddies! ❤️ Any idea if this bristleworm that I just found in my marine aquarium's internal filter is actually a fireworm? I found a couple of these back when I was cleaning substrate from the previous iteration of my aquarium & I'm wondering if this thing might've eaten some MIA fish!
Caught against the clear side of my internal filter us the pinkish red body of a bristly segmented marine worm. Same as previous but with some changes in the worm's pose showing that it hasn't moved. The worm, twisted up into a corkscrew, now removed from the filter housing. A more detailed shot of the worm.
November 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
chesapeakebayfdn.bsky.social
Happy Halloween! 🎃 ...would you still love us if we were a (bristle) worm? From hellbenders to zombie crabs, our waters hold some pretty spooky critters. Check it out: https://www.cbf.org/blogs/save-the-bay/top-5-scariest-critters-in-the-bay.html

📷: Hans Hillewaert, Neil Ever Osborne/iLCP
Close-up image of a bristleworm Close-up of an eastern hellbender eating a snack Close-up of a mud crab with the loxo parasite
October 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
bookshelf-bat.bsky.social
I love that things tend to happen when I finally have inspiration to write. Half my fingers are currently swollen because I got covered in bristleworm spines at work. I absolutely hate these little demons. As soon as we can order more crabs, they will be dealt with and I won't feel bad.
November 20, 2024 at 5:08 AM
awwducational.bsky.social
The bearded fireworm (Hermodice carunculata) is a type of marine bristleworm native to the tropical Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea and it can grow to 30 cm in length. It moves about slowly and can sting releasing potent neurotoxins if touched by a careless swimmer.
March 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
rapti.bsky.social
Taken a big accidental gulp of reef water, hopefully avoiding an adventurous bristleworm
October 28, 2025 at 6:07 PM
snurb.info
Story of the day: a German aquarium is hunting for a bristleworm of up to two metres that's eating their corals and hiding in <checks notes> slime tubes. 🪱

There's an overnight livestream at the bottom of the article if you'd like to help.
Auf der Suche nach dem Borstenwurm im Karlsruher Aquarium
Er war zwischenzeitlich gut zwei Meter lang und dennoch hat ihn bis heute niemand gesehen. Seit Jahren lebt ein Borstenwurm im Riesenaquarium in Karlsruhe gut versteckt. Jetzt sollen ihm Kameras auflauern. Von Michael Lang.
www.tagesschau.de
August 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
coalshork.bsky.social
I drew a pride worm
Pixel art of a bristleworm, decorated in pride flag colors
June 2, 2024 at 3:54 PM
consume.red
yoooo look at this bristleworm i found
worm curling and coiling in my hand. it has lots of segments and leglike bristles
April 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
smelting.bsky.social
hello bristleworm
April 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
thomaslinley.com
More wonders from #AntarcticClimateConnections

#polychaete #bristleworm

Brought up in immaculate condition.
February 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
ev0lemi.bsky.social
Hey #Marinelife 🦑
I'm diving the West End of Roatan in a few days!

Tell me your favorite dive sites and why?

Pics from Bonaire 2023
A bright orange bristleworm curled around a finger of coral shot during a night dive A sassy damselfish poses in a coral archway with a beautiful blue sea background
January 2, 2024 at 2:44 AM
crabby-girl.bsky.social
I asked rose if she'd still love me if I was this specific bristleworm. she stopped and thought about it and said "I'd love you more"
a blue bristleworm about the length of a finger
August 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
ev0lemi.bsky.social
More itty bitties from Roatan! A lettuce sea slug, a tiny pipefish, a baby bristleworm, and a see-through shrimp 🦑
A green lettuce sea slug with orange stripe frill A super slender pipefish, the grains of sand look like big rocks next to its head An kitty bitty bristleworm on the rope. The rope takes up half the frame A transparent cleaner shrimp with looooooong antennae and delicate purple spots
January 22, 2024 at 1:47 AM
tazmilygum.bsky.social
This art fucking sucks. Get someone who can actually draw instead of laying around like a worthless incompetent bristleworm and having plagiarist technology do all the “work” for you
September 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
consume.red
ok here's most of the kinds of worm i found

@crevicedwelling.bsky.social worm content
bristleworm of some kind in my hand. long segmented with short leglike bristles no idea. a fat tube curling up in my hand. dark color flatworm fuck friday dark on top, lighter belly
April 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
daniel1988vrblg.bsky.social
Bristleworm
October 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
copperbora.bsky.social
I'm hoping that it's a bristleworm, they're a lot more benign & even can be considered helpful! I don't think it is a bobbit worm due to its lack of horrifying alien-looking murder jaws on one of its ends but I could be wrong. I have had three fish vanish in the last quarter though. 😵‍💫
November 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
mxnectarine.bsky.social
Benthic bristleworm, long and deadly but fabulous
These ambush predators have five antennae on their head that are used to sense prey.[11] The body is covered by a hard exoskeleton.[12] The mandibles can be retracted inside the body and are responsible for striking and stunning prey; they are capable of snapping some prey in half.[13] Typically, E. aphroditois ranges from deep purple to black, with an iridescent skin. The largest known specimen on record reached 299 cm (9.81 ft) in length,[3] making it the longest known member of the polychaete class. Despite these great lengths, the worms are slim, with the body only about 25.5 mm (1.00 in) wide.
October 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
awwducational.bsky.social
The bearded fireworm (Hermodice carunculata) is a type of marine bristleworm native to the tropical Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea and it can grow to 30 cm in length. It moves about slowly and can sting releasing potent neurotoxins if touched by a careless swimmer.
April 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
amagire.bsky.social
no one: has any furry ever drawn an anthro benthic bristleworm in a business suit?
me: you bet your ass
June 15, 2023 at 2:22 PM
inaturalist.bsky.social
It's always a good day to celebrate a bristleworm. Our community suspects that this one is the species Glycera fallax.

📷 yolandave_24 on iNaturalist
📍 United Kingdom
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay
A pale pink worm with segments coils around itself. It has little bristle-like appendages all along its body. A pale pink worm with segments coils around itself. It has little bristle-like appendages all along its body. A pale pink worm with segments coils around itself. It has little bristle-like appendages all along its body.
August 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
wildlifetoursed.bsky.social
We also found this very thin but very long bristleworm , possibly Phyllodoce mucosa, in one of the rockpools.
#WildlifeUK, #NatureUK , #MarineLifeUK , #Wildlife , #Nature , #MarineLife , #Rockpool
January 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
laminda.bsky.social
Oops, looks like that extinct bristleworm post went up multiple times -- sorry for the repetition! Unless of course you love seeing gorgeous bristleworm science in your skyline, in which case you're welcome
July 1, 2023 at 8:54 PM
sandpaperoctopi.bsky.social
totally normal dog. definitely not a worm
Drawing of a strange bristleworm-looking creature, but if it walked on six noodle legs. It has a pointy snout and thin, ear-like tentacles. It also has more thin curly tentacles on its back.
May 28, 2025 at 5:12 AM