Welcome!

Circus #32 is about to go online!

Get your submissions off for Circus of the Spineless #32 (especially posts about the ultimate, and intelligentist, class of invertebratadudes, the Mollusca) now! The next edition will be at Deep Sea News http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/

send your submissions pronto to Kevin at kaz146 (at) psu.edu

Edition #33 will be at Seeds Aside.

Your submissions will be due May 30, 2008 and you can send them to: Laurent: seedsaside (at) gmail (dot) com

Edition #34 will be at Gossamer Tapestry.

Your submissions will be due June 29, 2008 and you can send them to: Doug Taron at dtaron (at) gmail.com

and we're looking for hosts for July and beyond! contact tony g at hurricanetg(a)hotmail.com

Circus #32 on the horizon!

Start getting your posts ready for Circus of the Spineless #32 (especially posts about the ultimate, and intelligentist, class of invertebratadudes, the Mollusca). The next edition will be at Deep Sea News http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/

send your submissions by April 29, 2008 to Kevin at kaz146(at)psu.edu

Edition #34 will be at Gossamer Tapestry.

Your submissions will be due May 30, 2008 and you can send them to: Doug Taron at dtaron (at) gmail.com

and we're looking for hosts for May and July and beyond! contact tony g at hurricanetg(a)hotmail.com

March Circus #31 has been posted!

There is a beautiful new Circus of the Spineless posted here: http://attleborobio.blogspot.com/2008/04/circus-of-spineless.html

Please go check it out and comment.

Many thanks to Jim Lemire for the wonderful work (even if it includes snail-bashing!)

#32 will be at Deep Sea News http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/

send your submissions by April 29, 2008 to Kevin at kaz146(at)psu.edu

and we're looking for hosts for May and beyond! contact tony g at hurricanetg(a)hotmail.com

Circus #30 has been posted!

From John Beetham:

Circus of the Spineless #30 is now online. You can find the current edition here:

http://dendroica.blogspot.com/2008/02/carnival-of-spineless.html

Thanks to everyone who submitted posts for this edition of the carnival.

our next host (for March, #31) will be at Archaea to Zeaxanthol http://attleborobio.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by March 30, 2008 to jim.lemire(at)gmail.com

#32 will be at Deep Sea News http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/

send your submissions by April 29, 2008 to Kevin at kaz146(at)psu.edu

and we're looking for hosts for May and beyond! contact tony g at hurricanetg(a)hotmail.com

Submissions due for Circus #30

The next issue of Circus of the Spineless is at A D.C. Birding Blog http://dendroica.blogspot.com/

send your submissions pronto to empidonax(at)gmail.com

our next host (for March, #31) will be at Archaea to Zeaxanthol http://attleborobio.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by March 30, 2008 to jim.lemire(at)gmail.com

#32 will be at Deep Sea News http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/

send your submissions by April 29, 2008 to Kevin at kaz146(at)psu.edu

and we're looking for hosts for May and beyond! contact tony g at hurricanetg(a)hotmail.com

Circus #29 has been posted!

Circus of the Spineless #29 has been posted at Andrea's Buzzing About here. Thanks for the wonderful job!

Future Circuses will be at:

#30 will be at A D.C. Birding Blog http://dendroica.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by February 27, 2008 to empidonax(at)gmail.com

#31 will be at Archaea to Zeaxanthol http://attleborobio.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by March 30, 2008 to jim.lemire(at)gmail.com

#32 will be at Deep Sea News http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/

send your submissions by April 29, 2008 to Kevin at kaz146(at)psu.edu

And of course, we’re looking for hosts for May and beyond!

Looking for Circus #29 Submissions!

Time to get your Circus of the Spineless submissions in. Issue #29 is being hosted by Andrea’s Buzzing About: http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/

send your submissions by January 31, 2008 to araychandler(at)yahoo.com

Future Circuses will be at:

#30 will be at A D.C. Birding Blog http://dendroica.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by February 27, 2008 to empidonax(at)gmail.com

#31 will be at Archaea to Zeaxanthol http://attleborobio.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by March 30, 2008 to jim.lemire(at)gmail.com

And of course, we’re looking for hosts for April and beyond!

Catalogue hosting #28 Now!

Christopher Taylor has rung up the new year with a gorgeous post for Circus of the Spineless #28 at Catalogue of Organisms. Be sure to check out all the great writing among our contributors, plus peruse Chris's superb blog, and drop off a comment or two. See you in 2008.

#29 will be at Andrea’s Buzzing About: http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/

send your submissions by January 30, 2008 to araychandler(at)yahoo.com

#30 will be at A D.C. Birding Blog http://dendroica.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by February 27, 2008 to empidonax(at)gmail.com

#31 will be at Archaea to Zeaxanthol http://attleborobio.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by March 30, 2008 to jim.lemire(at)gmail.com

And of course, we’re looking for hosts for April and beyond!

Spineless #28 looking for submissions now!

Hey Folks, because Chris has an early deadline, AND we'd like him to enjoy some holiday time too, the submission date for the December issue of Circus of the Spinless is December 22nd -- that's Saturday. Please send him your nominations for your favorite invert posts by then. He expects to post on December 27th.

#28 will be at Catalogue of Organisms http://catalogue-of-organisms.blogspot.com/

send your submission to gerarus(at)westnet.com.au

#29 will be at Andrea’s Buzzing About: http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/

send your submissions by January 30, 2008 to araychandler(at)yahoo.com

#30 will be at A D.C. Birding Blog http://dendroica.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by February 27, 2008 to empidonax(at)gmail.com

#31 will be at Archaea to Zeaxanthol http://attleborobio.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by March 30, 2008 to jim.lemire(at)gmail.com

And of course, we’re looking for hosts for April and beyond!

Spineless Circus #27 has blasted off!

The creativity of Spineless hosts always surprises me. So i am with Circus #27 hosted by Patrick Belardo at The Hawk Owl's Nest. Check out his haikuish wonder here.

#28 will be at Catalogue of Organisms http://catalogue-of-organisms.blogspot.com/

send your submission by December 22 to gerarus(at)westnet.com.au

#29 will be at Andrea’s Buzzing About: http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/

send your submissions by January 30, 2008 to araychandler(at)yahoo.com

#30 will be at A D.C. Birding Blog http://dendroica.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by February 27, 2008 to empidonax(at)gmail.com

#31 will be at Archaea to Zeaxanthol http://attleborobio.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by March 30, 2008 to jim.lemire(at)gmail.com

And of course, we’re looking for hosts for April and beyond!

Circus #27 Time!

Circus Time Again!

Yep! It's Time for the Circus of the Spineless #27. Send your submissions to pbelardo(at)yahoo.com by this Sunday, so they can be posted at The Hawk Owl’s Nest

http://hawkowl.blogspot.com/

#28 will be at Catalogue of Organisms http://catalogue-of-organisms.blogspot.com/

send your submission by December 22 to gerarus(at)westnet.com.au

#29 will be at Andrea’s Buzzing About: http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/

send your submissions by January 30, 2008 to araychandler(at)yahoo.com

#30 will be at A D.C. Birding Blog http://dendroica.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by February 27, 2008 to empidonax(at)gmail.com

#31 will be at Archaea to Zeaxanthol http://attleborobio.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by March 30, 2008 to jim.lemire(at)gmail.com

And of course, we’re looking for hosts for April and beyond!

ENV: The Circus is on!

Kevin has posted a fantastic Circus of the Spineless #26 at The Other 95%. Check it out here, and let Kevin know what you think of his work!

And keep these in mind for the future . . .

#27 will be at The Hawk Owl’s Nest http://hawkowl.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by November 29 to pbelardo(at)yahoo.com

#28 will be at Catalogue of Organisms http://catalogue-of-organisms.blogspot.com/

send your submission by December 30 to gerarus(at)westnet.com.au

#29 will be at Andrea’s Buzzing About: http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/

send your submissions by January 30, 2008 to araychandler(at)yahoo.com

#30 will be at A D.C. Birding Blog http://dendroica.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by February 27, 2008 to empidonax(at)gmail.com

And of course, we’re looking for hosts for March and beyond!

http://invertebrates.blogspot.com

Time for Circus #26

Circus Time Again!

Yep! It's Time for the Circus of the Spineless #26. Send your submissions to to kaz146(at)psu.edu pronto, so we can get a peek at them at The Other 95% !

#27 will be at The Hawk Owl’s Nest http://hawkowl.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by November 29 to pbelardo(at)yahoo.com

#28 will be at Catalogue of Organisms http://catalogue-of-organisms.blogspot.com/

send your submission by December 30 to gerarus(at)westnet.com.au

#29 will be at Andrea’s Buzzing About: http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/

send your submissions by January 30, 2008 to araychandler(at)yahoo.com

#30 will be at A D.C. Birding Blog http://dendroica.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by February 27, 2008 to empidonax(at)gmail.com

And of course, we’re looking for hosts for March and beyond!

http://invertebrates.blogspot.com

Putting up the Big Top!

Circus Time Again!

Yep! It's Time for the Circus of the Spineless #25. Send your submissions to by September 30 to thebudak(at)gmail.com by this Saturday, so they can be posted at The Annotated Budak

#26 will be at The Other 95% http://other95.blogspot.com

send your submissions by October 30 to kaz146(at)psu.edu

#27 will be at The Hawk Owl’s Nest http://hawkowl.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by November 29 to pbelardo(at)yahoo.com

#28 will be at Catalogue of Organisms http://catalogue-of-organisms.blogspot.com/

send your submission by December 30 to gerarus(at)westnet.com.au

#29 will be at Andrea’s Buzzing About: http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/

send your submissions by January 30, 2008 to araychandler(at)yahoo.com

#30 will be at A D.C. Birding Blog http://dendroica.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by February 27, 2008 to empidonax(at)gmail.com

And of course, we’re looking for hosts for March and beyond!

http://invertebrates.blogspot.com

Circus #24 is Up!

Yep, that's two year's worth!!

Check it out at Naturalist Notebook here! Very, very nice work!

Tags: blogs, culture, science, environment, bugs

It's Circus Time Again!

Yep! It's Time. Send your submissions to dpixie(at)demented-pixie.com by this Friday, so they can be posted on the newly redesigned and lovely Naturalist Notebook

#25 will be at The Annotated Budak http://budak.blogs.com/

send your submission by September 29 to thebudak(at)gmail.com

#26 will be at The Other 95% http://other95.blogspot.com

send your submissions by October 30 to kaz146(at)psu.edu

#27 will be at The Hawk Owl’s Nest http://hawkowl.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by November 29 to pbelardo(at)yahoo.com

#28 will be at Catalogue of Organisms http://catalogue-of-organisms.blogspot.com/

send your submission by December 30 to gerarus(at)westnet.com.au

#29 will be at Andrea’s Buzzing About: http://qw88nb88.wordpress.com/

send your submissions by January 30, 2008 to araychandler(at)yahoo.com

#30 will be at A D.C. Birding Blog http://dendroica.blogspot.com/

send your submissions by February 27, 2008 to empidonax(at)gmail.com

And of course, we’re looking for hosts for March and beyond!

http://invertebrates.blogspot.com

Circus #23 is now UP!

This word just in from Roger:

Hi,

Just a quick note to let you know that the 23rd edition of Circus of the Spineless is now on-line at: Words & Pictures

cheers,
Roger B.
http://pinguicula.typepad.com/blog
http://uknhb.blogspot.com


Tags: blogs, culture, science, environment, bugs, milkriverblog

Yup, it's Circus of the Spineless Time!

We're on the cusp of our second anniversary already, and here to take on the penultimate version of our first fifth of a decade is Roger at Words & Pictures! Many thanks to him for stepping up to the plate for this. You can email submissions for July to him directly by the 30th. And thanks for making the Circus one of the best Carnivals online!

We’ve had some excellent bloggers step up to the plate for the next few issues. Put these on your calendar:

#24 will be at Naturalist Notebook
send your submissions by August 30 to Summer here at her gorgeous new blog

#25 will be at The Annotated Budak
send your submission by September 29 to Marcus here

#26 will be at The Other 95%
send your submissions by October 30 to Kevin here

#27 will be at The Hawk Owl’s Nest
send your submissions by November 29 to Patrick here

And of course, we’re looking for hosts for December and beyond!

all my best, tony g
milk river film, ingram, texas
http://invertebrates.blogspot.com
http://milkriver.blogspot.com
http://youtube.com/milkriverfilm

Circus of the Spineless # 22 is UP!

Bev has served up a wonderful plate of invertebrate delicacies at Burning Silo for Circus of the Spineless #22. Please give it a check here, and help spread the word via your blog.

We’ve had some excellent bloggers step up to the plate for the next few issues. Put these on your calendar:

#23 will be at Words & Pictures

#24 will be at Bird Wacthers Notebook

#25 will be at The Annotated Budak

#26 will be at The Other 95%

And of course, we’re looking for hosts for November and beyond!

New hosts!

Thanks very much to Bev for picking up the hosting duties for CotS #22 at Burning Silo. It'll be out in the next few days.

In the meantime we had some other wonderful volunteers step forward, and i can give you a rundown for the next three months.

#23 will be at Words & Pictures -- send your submissions by July 30 to Roger here

#24 will be at Bird Watchers Notebook -- send your submissions by August 30 to Summer here

#25 wil be at The Annotated Budak -- send your submission by September 29 to Marcus here

#26 will be at The Other 95% -- send your submissions by October 30 to Kevin here

We're about ready for CotS #22

You can start sending your submissions for Circus of the Spineless #22.

Bev Wigney has offered to host this issue. You can send submissions to me or directly to her at Burning Silo

And check out the blog right here.

Please get your submissions in by Saturday evening the 30th.

We're also looking for all future hosts. First come first served, but we'll fix you up with something!

Circus #21 is UP at 10,000 Birds!!

Mike Bergin has assembled another wonderful Circus for our invertebrate-loving patrons. It's over at 10,000 Birds, and you can check it out here.

Meanwhile #20 is still in a bit of limbo, because i can't post anything to my blog until some bugs get worked out.

Circus #21 needs your work!

Hey Folks,

Explanations and call for submission.

First, get your submissions for Circus of the Spineless to Mike Bergin at 10,000 Birds. He's our May host and he's raring to go on this next edition.

Second, Mike let me know middle of last week that something was amiss with COTS20. Only i didn't catch on to what was going on. Any glance at my blog will clue people in to my having been gone, gone, gone for the last 8 weeks or so, and blogging has been unaccomplishable, as has email, for those who've written. Anyway, something's haywire at milkriverblog (maybe at Blogger?) and my blog is a mess, with posts and graphics disappearing, or onlye showing up as bars. i've been working on it, but so far, no luck. Anyway, issue 20, which was all graphic, will be up again as soon as i can figure out why it's not accepting it, or maybe a text version until i do. So sorry for the delay in getting your stuff out to the world. P.s., when you send stuff to Mike, don't duplicate material you already sent me!

A little more delay

Sorry folks,

I was off leading field trips all weekend, and when i returned the interent was down, and has returned only intermittently. So i'm spending the day downloading submissions and will try to post tonight. Sorry for the delay.

tg

Circus of the Spineless #20 Slight Delay

Our scheduled host for this month had a family death this week, and i'll be taking over. We'd like to wish Roger a peaceful week as he deals with his loss.

There was further delay because i've been leading field trips for the last five days, and have three more on the immediate horizon. So i'm asking for submissions to flow in for the next four days and i'll put #20 together this weekend. Sorry for the delay.

Submissions can be sent to me at hurricanetg(at)hotmail.com by Friday. The Circus will appear Sunday evening, May 6th at milkriverblog -- http://milkriver.blogspot.com.

Thanks for your patience!

tony g

Circus #19 is up and ready to fly!

A wonderful Circus of the Spineless -- #19 to be precise -- is up at Burning Silo. Check it out here! And while you're there give Bev some props.

And if you're hungry to be a blog host, we have an opening to host the April edition. Just drop me an email here.

It's Circus Time for the Spineless

Burning Silo is hosting Circus of the Spineless this month. Let’s get in some dynamite submissions by the end of the weekend and see what turns up in COTS #19. And while you’re scouting around the Silo check out this post on a Blogging BioBlitz – cool idea! http://magickcanoe.com/blog/2007/03/26/first-annual-blogger-bioblitz/

Please get your submissions to Bev at burning-silo(at)magickcanoe(dot)com pronto! And thanks!

We’re looking for an April and other future hosts! Let me know if you’re interested.

Touchdown! #18 is at Pharyngula!

PZ Myers at Pharyngula has done another gorgeous spread of invertebrate photos and links for Circus of the Spineless #18. Check it out here. And drop PZ a note of thanks!

We're still looking for some future hosts -- as in soon!

Call for #18 Submissions

P.Z. Myers, at the wonderful blog Pharyngula, is hosting Circus #18. It is due online March 5th, so get your nominations to him by the 2nd. He can be reached here.

P.s. We're looking for hosts for #20 to be posted at the end of April, and for hosts for June and beyond. If you're interested in hosting the Circus of the Spineless at your blog, please give me a shout here.

The 17th Edition is Ready For Reading!

Jeremy Bruno at The Voltage Gate brings us a fantastic 17th version of The Circus of the Spineless! Check it out here.

Circus of the Spineless #16 is Ready to View!

Paul DeCelles has posted another fabulous Circus of the Spineless at The force that through . . .

Check it out here.

Circus #15 is UP and it's wonderful!

The 15th edition of the Circus of the Spineless has been posted at Words & Pictures. Many, many thanks to Roger Butterfield, who not only stepped up at the last minute to host this edition, but produced an elegant and beautiful post from the 15 contributors. Be sure to visit at: http://pinguicula.typepad.com/blog/2006/12/cots15.html and then drop Roger a kudo in comments or send him a note of thanks for his time and effort.

Meanwhile Paul Decelles is already booking space for the 16th edition at The Force That Through . . . Check out his call for entries here: http://theforcethat.blogspot.com/2006/12/call-for-submissions-circus-of.html

A secondary result of our dilemma was that we had another couple of folks volunteer to host future editions. So, after December you can look forward to volumes hosted at:
#17 The Voltage Gate
#18 Pharyngula
and #19 Burning Silo

Thanks again, very much, to Roger for this edition, and to all our future hosts. If you’d like to be a future host (April and beyond) please let me know.

Circus of the Spineless #15 slight delay

Hey Folks,

Our host for the November Circus of the Spineless has had to bail for personal reasons. Here's what i'd like to do. I'm going to extend the issue by a week, expecting it to go up December 7th. Please send all submissions to me at hurricanetg(at)hotmail.com

if someone would like to be the host with a week and a half to put it together please let me know -- i will forward all submissions. if more than one person would like to host -- i'll take the first for November and add the others to the queue. if no host steps up, i will gladly put together this issue to be sure it gets out. so please get me your nominations by let's say Dec 4th.

Thanks!
tony g

WOW! Circus #14 is Up!

What a fantastic and beautiful Circus of the Spineless #14 we have gotten from the Neurophilosopher's Blog. Check it Out!

Circus #14 on the Way -- Submit NOW!

Time to get your submissions together for Circus of the Spineless being hosted at The Neurophilsopher's Blog. Send them to MC at mmnc1974(at)googlemail.com

Circus of the Spineless #13

Never in my wildest imagination would i have conceived of a Circus decorated with tattoos of our favorite critters. It's a natural though, isn't it? Tattoos and Circuses. Lucky for us, Deep Sea News is on the cusp of that very creative edge. What a fantastic new Circus of the Spineless to begin our second year! Congrats for the fine work.

Sunbeams Does the Circus!

Somehow i failed to timely mention that the newest Circus of the Spineless is up. It's special because it's another rung up the ladder of excellence that every host seems to be climbing AND it's the completion of our first year. Congrats to Steve for a fine, fine issue! You can catch it at Sunbeams from Cucumbers.

Get Ready for Circus #12!

Time to get your submissions together for Circus of the Spineless being hosted at Sunbeams from Cucumbers. Send them to Steve at sreuland@gmail.com

Circus #11 has been posted . . .

And what gorgeous edition it is featuring screengrabs of each of the blogs! With succinct titles and links Roger has continued a Circus tradition by upping the ante for elegance of presentation. Be sure to visit at Words & Pictures.

And if that weren't enough he's created a Flickr companion Group -- you can check out Circus photos here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/spineless/.

Next month's completion of our First Full Year issue (!) will be hosted at Sunbeams from Cucumbers. Be sure to start readying your posts for a celebratory edition. And watch that blog for news from Steve about where and when to send your submissions.