Field guide No. 1426
Cave crickets carrying daylight
They brought the daylight in
On a wet, dark cave wall, a swarm of pale crickets glows with cold white light. The cave finally has a day shift.
Field noteCave crickets live where no light reaches, and these have each smuggled a little in on their backs.
Also possible, also breaking category
Octopus scattered across the seabedFive arms vanish into five separate burrows, so the octopus is in several meetings at once.
Stranded jellyfish filled with autumn leavesJellyfish swallow what drifts in. This one met a lot of leaves on the way to shore.
Emerald frog’s concentric dew chorusCalls are sound; dew is water. A croak arriving as droplets swaps one for the other.
Silver crescent in a bruised skyClouds that colour like a bruise round a crescent. Skies only look hurt; this one took it literally.