About the author: Nerdy wannabe marine biologist with too much time on her hands. I love biology and nature, particularly invertebrates and plants. (I collect unusual plants such as cacti, carnivores, black flowers and other oddities, and also collect invertebrate jewellery.)

Favourite animals: Invertebrate favourites are scorpions, vinegaroons, spiders, velvet worms, millipedes, centipedes, slugs, snails, cockroaches, earwigs, insects in general, jellyfish, squid, octopi, cuttlefish, nautili, starfish, anemones, and osedax muciflora. (The bone-eating snot flower.)