Spiders
Eight legs, silk stronger than steel weight for weight, and a lot of undeserved bad press.
The critters.im network
critters.im is the hub for small animals. Each kind of critter gets its own site, and this page always shows which are open and which are still in the drawer.
Live critter sites
- None yet. The first critter sites are being built.
Coming soon
These are planned and not open yet, so they aren’t linked.
- Spiders Coming soon
- Beetles Coming soon
- Butterflies & moths Coming soon
- Snails & slugs Coming soon
- Ants Coming soon
- Dragonflies 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.
How it fits together
critters.im is the sister hub of Animals.im. Animals.im covers the wider animal kingdom, and critters.im covers insects, spiders, snails, worms and the other minibeasts. Every critter site has an “Explore Critters.im” bar at the top of every page and one link back here, “More critters at Critters.im”.
The list of sites lives in network.json. The drawer, the cards, the footer list and sitemap-index.xml are all built from it, and only live sites go into the sitemap index.
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 →
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