![Some examples illustrating the biodiversity of invertebrates. Tube-building worms animals (Serpulidae, upper left), a shell-boring polychaete (Spionidae, upper right), a red threds worm (Cirratulidae, lower left), and moss animals (bryozoa, lower right).](https://blog.annelida.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Presentation1.jpg)
Do we need to lobby more for invertebrate taxonomy and biodiversity?
Spiders, insects and even more so worms and wormlike invertebrates are often considered ugly and disgusting, at least unappealing, and sometimes even dangerous. Certainly, there is also beautiful invertebrates such as e.g., butterflies, beetles, dragonflies, or some sea slugs, but usually invertebrates appeal little to our understanding of […]