Circus of the Spineless #69 is up!

Bad bad bad carnival organizer!! I forgot to link to January's carnival, Edition #69, over at the excellent Wild About Ants, go there and read it now!!

Now, we are only days away from the beautiful blog Beasts in a Populous City. Please send submissions to squidfan {at} gmx {dot} com!

Circus of the Spineless #68 Is Up!

Dave Hubble has the 68th edition of the traveling Circus of the Spineless up at his Ecology Spot. Make sure you head over there and wish his blog a happy 1st birthday too!

Next month's Circus will travel to Wild About Ants, please send submissions to wildaboutants (at) gmail (dot) com. I am looking for hosts in April and beyond!

Circus of the Spineless #67 Is Up!

I posted the 67th Circus of the spineless at Deep Sea News. Check it out and also check out my plug for the #SciFund Challenge at the end. It's a really great idea and I hope you all fund some science research!

The Circus will be traveling next month to Dave Hubble’s Ecology Spot. Send next month’s submissions to dshubble at yahoo dot com by December 4th! Thanks for tuning in and supporting one of the longest running science blog carnivals.

Circus of the Spineless #66 Is Up!

Long time poster and hoster of the Circus, Wanderin' Weeta, has the latest edition of the Circus up! A fantastic selection of posts!

Stayed tuned for instructions for next month's circus. You can send them my way for now, kzelnio at gmail dot com.

Circus of the Spineless #65 Is Up!

Danna at The Cephalopodiatrist (see her for all your head-foot problems!) has the latest edition of the Circus up! Great stuff inside as always, another great month with plenty of submissions shows that the spineless community really enjoys keeping this Circus going!

Next month's edition will be held at Wanderin' Weeta's blog, send your submissions to wanderinweeta at gmail dot com!

Circus of the Spineless #64 is up!

I have the latest Circus of the Spineless up at my new Scientific American blog, EvoEcoLab.

Next month, the Circus travels to the Cephalopodiatrist to get that embarrassing head-foot problem looked at. Send your submission to me to pass on to Danna! The gmail knows me as kzelnio.

July Circus is up!

Jennifer Frazer has the June/July Circus of the Spineless up her shiny new Scientific American blog The Artful Amoeba. An excellent resource for natural history. Make you check her previous couple posts out, she is truly a marvelous writer.

Now that my shiny new Scientific American blog is up, I will be hosting the August Edition at EvoEcoLab on August 8th. So send me your submissions up till August 7th to kzelnio at gmail dot com!

No June Circus, But There Is a July One!

Sorry world, I flaked out in June. I was supposed to host it and got super busy with real life transitional stuff and writing. But I do have a July host and we are aiming for early to mid-July. I will forward all June submissions to her and you can contact Jennifer Frazer of the fabulous Artful Amoeba blog. You can send submissions to her at ranatrafusca at the yahoo.

Circus of the Spineless #62 is up!

Danna over at "Squid A Day" has the latest Circus of the Spineless up her place! Go check out all the squishy goodness and please heed her plea for more polychaete blogging this month!

Need a host for July, October, and December this year. Don't be a sloth, race to the comments here to sign up for a slot and keep one of the longest running science blog carnivals going!

Send next month's submissions to... me! The gmail knows me as kzelnio.

Circus of the Spineless #61 is up!

Zen at Neurodojo has the latest Circus up and it all about LEGS! Go check it out, no shortage of great reading.

Next edition is scheduled at Squid A Day blog by Danna. Send your submissions to her at dannajoy at gmail. Still looking for hosts to fill out the year: June, July, September, October and December.

Circus of the Spineless #60 is Up!

Bug Girl has the latest Circus of the Spineless up at her fabulous blog! Lots of great nuggets in there. And well, Spring is in the air, so you know what that means *wink wink nudge nudge*.

Next month is slated to be held at Zen's place, the Neurodojo. Send your submissions to doctorzen at gmail by April 3rd. Looking for hosts for June and July. Keep the Circus traveling!

Circus of the Spineless #59 is Up!

Malia of the fabulous blog Shell and Mantle did a wonderful job putting together the latest edition of the Circus of the Spineless! Lots of great posts which are interspersed with other fun images and videos of our spineless brethren. Of course the epic worm battle alone is worth seeing!

The amazing Bug Girl is hosting the March edition, #60, over at her place. Send her your submissions before March 6th to get included - her email address is membracid, and it’s a Gmail.com account.. The Circus arrives the first Monday of each month. And finally, looking for hosts for June, July, September, October and December this year.

Carnival of the Spineless #57 and 58 are up!

December was a crazy month for me and I totally FAILed on getting the word out about Wandering Weeta's great Circus #57. Go there and check out all the fantastic spineless writing.

This month's host is the Cephalove blog. Yet another assortment of superb suppositions on spineless stuff. February will be hosted at Shell and Mantle, send submissions to shellandmantleATgmailDOTcom. Can't believe this is still going after 5 and a half years! Even when I mess up a month you guys take it by the tentacles and keep going with it. A testament to the passion and commitment of the online invertebrate writing community.

Still looking for hosts for April and beyond.

Circus of the Spineless #56 is up!

Spooktacular Circus of the Spineless edition 56! Head over to Cephalopodcast to check out some great writing, backbone not required.

Next month the Circus stops at Wanderin Weeta, send submissions to wanderinweeta at gmail dot com.

Looking for host for March and beyond, please keep this long-running Circus long running!

Circus of the Spineless #55 is up!

Roberta at Wild About Ants has the latest edition of the Circus up!! Its a beautifully laid out edition - The Museum of Invertebrate Art. Be sure to read it through. Great job Roberta!

Next Month is a special Circus of the Spineless at Cephalopodcast. Why is it special? Because it coincides with Octopus Day!

Did you know that Friday, October 8 is International Cephalopod Awareness Day? Well, it is! This month's festivities will be hosted by Danna Joy Staaf at the Cephalopodiatrist blog: cephalopodday.org

Send your submissions to cephalopodcast (at) gmail(dot)com. Also, always looking for more hosts to keep this Circus running! Sign up for any month after February.

Circus of the Spineless #54 is up!

Hectocotyli has the latest edition up! Its a great one, highly entertaining, so head over and take a gander!

Roberta at the fabulous Wild About Ants is hosting the edition, send you submissions to wildaboutants AT gmail (dot) com.

I'm still looking for hosts for December and beyond, please sign up!

Circus of the Spineless #53 is up!

The latest Circus of the Spineless (edition #53! zOMG!) is up at Birder’s Lounge. Amber has provided a wonderful assortment of spineless specialties on the menu for your culinary perusal.

“Ok, if you HAD to look at insects and their spineless ilk as food, what would your menu look like? Would it resemble the menus of birds, herps, mammals – even other insects?”

Next edition will be over at Hectocotyli's place. Send contributions to hectocotyli>at>gmail>dot>com.

Of course, I'm looking for hosts for December and beyond!

Circus of the Spineless #52 is up!

John at Kind of Curious has the latest edition of the Circus up, arranged in order of "grossness". Of course, its all in the eye of the beholder!

Next month's edition is held at The Birder's Lounge. Use this contact page to send submissions to the Lounge. Also, still looking for hosts in September, December and I'll start taking names for the next year!

Circus of the Spineless #51 is up!

I posted the 51st edition of the Circus up at Deep Sea News.

Next month's edition will be hosted at Kind of Curious. Send your submissions to KindofCurious2000 at gmail.

I'm looking for hosts for September and December this year. Do your part to support this long running carnival!

Circus of the Spineless #50 is up!

No words can escape the pure unadulterated awesomeness that is Circus of the Spineless #50 over at the spectacular Arthropoda blog. Go for the DrosophApocalypse Now image, stay for the brilliance that is the Invertebrata.

Next month is hosted at Deep Sea News. Send your submissions by May 31 to deepseanews at gmail dot com. I'm looking for hosts for September, October and December this year. Do your part to support this long running carnival!

Circus of the Spineless #49 is up!

Xenogere has the latest edition of the Circus of the Spineless up! Its nicely written and has lots of excellent links to invertagoodness in it!

Send next month's submissions to Mike Bok at Arthropoda.

CotS #48 up at Modern Naturalist!

Not to be confused with the modern naturist, The Modern Naturalist has the latest Circus of the Spineless!

Please send next month's submissions to Xenogere.

Circus of the Spineless #47 is up at Beetles in the Bush!

Beetles in the Bush has the 47th edition of the Circus of the Spineless up! A nicely laid out post with 16 fabulous submissions spanning a wide range of terrestrial, marine and aquatic critters.

Matthew Sarver from the Modern Naturalist
is hosting edition #48! You can submit entries via his contact page.

Also, looking for hosts for after July.

Circus of the Spineless #46 is up!

Great job to Kate who posted the latest installment of the Circus of the Spineless (#46!) up at Adventures of a Free Range Urban Primate. A fantastic edition, I'm glad to see new faces in there.

I'm looking for hosts for May and beyond. Leave a comment or send me an email if you'd like to host! Next month will be hosted by Ted at Beetles in the Bush, makes sure you get your submission in by January 30. You can contact him here.

Circus of the Spineless #45 up!

Greg Laden has the latest installment of Circus of the Spineless.

Be sure to get your submissions this month to Adventures of a Free Range Urban Primate.

Circus of the Spineless 43 and 44 up!

I can't believe I missed letting ya'll know that #43 was up at Quiche Moraine! I must have been too busy reading it last month and forgot all about updating this page. I am sure everyone noticed anyways because QM should be in EVERYONE's rss feed anyways.

Marmorkrebs has #44 up now as well. It is an action-packed crunchy and squishy love fest. Let's get a little more squishy love next month when the Circus of the Spineless is hosted at Greg Laden's blog! Send all your submissions to Greg.

Wanderin' Weeta Has a Confession!

Find out about it at Circus of the Spineless #42, hosted by Wandering Weeta (with Waterfowl and Weeds)! A wonderful job!

Send next month's submissions for Quiche Moraine to Greg Laden at greg at gregladen dot com.

New (Belated) Circus Is Up!

I'm sorry guys, I've been drinking too much with the Southern Fried Scientist that he just passes out before he can even open his laptop. Well, he sobered up enough to post the 42nd edition of the Circus of the Spineless. Go check it out, lots of good stuff there!

Get your submissions in to Wanderin' Weeta by the end of the month for the next edition of the Circus! Her email address is in the profile.

Get Your Circus Submissions in NOW

Today is the last day to get in your submissions for the 41st Circus of the Spineless, hosted by Southern Fried Science. Send them to southernfriedscientist at gmail dot com.

Also, I totally FAILED to promote last months Circus. The Cheshire blog did a superb job at putting together Edition #40. Go check it out!

Circus of the Spineless #39 Is Up!

Bug Girl's Blog is the host of this months Circus of the Spineless! Plenty of insects and arachnids with a smattering of marine inverts for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy some fine nature writing and photography!

Submit your entries for next month at the Cheshire Blog. Contact Info is on this page.

Its CotS Time Again!! #38 at the Birder's Lounge!

Hey! Wait a second! Don't birds eat invertebrate!? I guess the Birder's Lounge are trying to redeem themselves with a fantastic #38th edition of the Circus of the Spineless! Make sure to check it out, it has cool clickable images!

Send next month's submissions to Bug Girl, her contact info is on this webpage.

New Circus up at Living the Scientific Life!

Circus of the Spineless #37 is up at Grrlscientist's blog, Living the Scientific Life!

Send next month's submissions to Birder's Lounge.

Circus of the Spineless #36 Is Up!

Ed, the keeper of the Invertebrate Diaries, has the 36th edition of the Circus of the Spineless up! Head over there straight away for all your boneless entertainment.

Send in Your Circus of the Spineless Submissions!

The next edition of the Circus of the Spineless will be held at the Invertebrate Diaries. Send in your submissions from this month to edwbaker at googlemail dot com by Midnight GMT Saturday, February 28th. The Circus is scheduled for Monday, March 2. Looking forward to all the de-boned articles!

Send in Circus of the Spineless #36 submissions

The next edition of the Circus of the Spineless will be held at the Invertebrate Diaries. Send in your submissions from this month to edwbaker at googlemail dot com by Midnight GMT Saturday, February 28th.

Circus of the Spineless #35 Posted and New Badge!

The 35th edition of the Circus of the Spineless is posted at The Other 95%. We are looking pretty good for hosts, but please do sign up for subsequent months after July. You can leave a comment here if you are interested in hosting!

Daniel from Biochemical Soul made this is awesome carnival badge for the Circus! He gave us full permission to use it for future Circuses. I posted the full file above and users can resize as they see fit for their posts. Thanks a ton Daniel!

The Circus is Under New Management!

Hopefully the Circus of the Spineless has not left your feeds. It is my pleasure to take this masterpiece of a blog carnival over the hands of Tony G and Nuthatch and keep it going. I'm looking forward to working with the invertablogging community and keeping my favorite Circus in the run.

Please contact me at kzelnio at gmail dot com to sign up for a hosting spot or leave a comment here. I'll put together a carnival for February at The Other 95% and need your help to get the word out and line up hosts for the upcoming months. Stay tuned for the upcoming link to the CotS revival!

Sorry . . .

The Circus of the Spineless has been suspended until a new host can be found. If you have an interest in taking over these duties, please contact me at hurricanetg@hotmail.com

NEW CotS

Circus of the Spineless is much delayed this month because of an interminable work schedule on my part. Please send your submissions to me at hurricanetg@hotmail.com and i'll get the issue out this weekend. Sorry for the delay, and thanks for your continued support.

p.s. we have a host for September, but are looking beyond. If you're interested in hosting please drop me a line at the address above.

Circus of the Spineless #33 is Up!!

Word is in from Laurent . . . Circus of the Spineless 33 has just been posted!

Check it out here:

http://seedsaside.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/circus-of-the-spineless/

And be sure to drop a thanks and congrats in the comments!!

Circus #33 Coming up!

Yep, time to get those submissions of your favorite posts over to Laurent!

Edition #33 (May 2008) will be at Seeds Aside.

Your submissions should be sent to: Laurent: seedsaside (at) gmail (dot) com

Coming up

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 needs to be keyed out!

The brilliance of Deep Sea News' 32nd edition of the Circus of the Spineless is in the dichotomous key Kevin devised to get you from point A to point Z. Wish i'd come up with that. Brilliant, just brilliant!

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!