The #artAdventCalendar sacrifice of the day is two mini paintings. They're quite small, but i really liked doing this style. #painting #watercolor #woods #nature #mini

I haven't painted many stones. I think about 3, and they've all been little. This one still needs to make her way across the ocean but I've been afraid to drill a hole all the way through 😅 #artAdventCalendar #crystals #witchy #painting

Ready for the festive season. Driftwood art by Paul Lewis. Esquimalt Lagoon, Victoria, BC #ArtAdventCalendar #photography #EastCoastKin #art #scape #stunday #beach #PhotographersOfBlueSky

If anyone wants a humble swimming otter print, they're available on my kofi now!! 🦦 ko-fi.com/s/6bf604106e

These are feathers I've carved out of quahog shell as the #artAdventCalendar offering of the day. Sometimes called wampum (but not completely accurate), this is a personal variation of a traditional indigenous craft. #indigenous #wampum #beach #shell #jewelry

A long while back, I posted round one on this tattoo. Trichonephila clavipes with a golden web over my hand and a honey bee in the web. I took this while she was doing round two, touch up on adding just a bit of shading to make the web pop a bit. #tattoo #spider #artsky

Holiday reminder that my books make great gifts! None of my titles assumes prior knowledge of the insect subjects, and they make for captivating reading (so I am told). 😊

Dec 7 #artAdventCalendar I was on a retreat in the woods with my beloveds and said "awww" when I saw the wee lawn ornament peeking from under snow.

For the #artAdventCalendar offering today...I was gifted a handful of bodhi nuts and this is the first one I carved. Really nice texture to work with. Relatively easy to get details out of it. #carving #bodhi #artsky

Rhipidioides sp. This very small male Rhipidioides sp. beetle was a new visitor to our moth light this week. This is the only recorded observation in Western Australia. The larvae of this species parasitises cockroaches🪳 #ausinverts #wildoz #beetle #coleoptera #inaturalist

Trypphinia has always been very picky about her enclosure. I recently added some fake plants. Took her a while to accept them and not just hide under her log all day but she's out today! My grumpy old lady 🖤 #snake #pets #decorations

Beech wood #trees #woodland #treeclub

The #artAdventCalendar continues with this little mini figure i painted. I forget what he exactly was but I really like him and all his little nature details. #ttrpg #miniature #mini #painting

“Trailblazing Kanien’kehá:ka nurse now a national historic person” - https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/edith-monture-nurse-historic-significance-9.6962466 - #Nursing #PatientCare #IndigenousHealth

For #artAdventCalendar today, I've got my first time making a full calendar! One has images of Hatteras Island and one has bugs and a frog. All my images and I'm really proud of them #calendar #photography #bugs #spider #wasp #nature art-by-amber-roth.printify.me

Bit late, but another day of ##artAdventCalendar This was a set a did for my brother when he got married. His wife reminds me of an osprey and my brother I swear is an otter in disguise #artsky #woodcarving #animalart

Haven't been in a while, so #artAdventCalendar is a good excuse to come back. I'll be posting a variety of art and photos #vultureculture #artsky #bones

Callisto With Whip and one of her "sprinkles" from her first egg sac. Latrodectus variolus, Northern black widow. Look at her little ❤️ on the one dorsal spots! #spiders #nature #widows #venom #petspiders

A Gray Cat Story, in 3 movements. It was on the floor because I was putting my beads away first. I noticed him staring and thought he might be plotting. I was correct. 🤣 #cats #graycats #shenanigans #silly #cute #catsofbluesky

This strange little spider is a Tmarus. Though part of the Thomisidae, they look different than their cousins with long legs that lay out in front of them. #spiders #arachnids #nature

Platycryptus undatus boys are so cute with their orange mustaches! #spiders #wildlife #nature

Cicada talk!!!

Hello new people! My name is Alie. I'm a mechanical engineer + entomologist who just illustrated a huge book about cicadas. Did you know there are over three thousand species of cicadas in the world?! 👩‍🔬🧪

Going to the #obx this summer? There's some amazing #classes being listed already! We're also going to have #bug #pollinator and #spider classes! I'll be #teaching some of them, and we've some amazing guests for others.

😹💜 #MidlifeCrisis #OwlCafe #PhDInNecromancy #Beekeepers @theamberlady.bsky.social

Spider season is upon us! Pisaurina dubia juvenile, nursery web #spider. I love the little cowlick 😅 They're so shy, I love finding these. #bugsky #spidersky #nature #wildlife

Fresh #tattoo! We built onto my #spider Athena, the Triconephila clavipes. We decided to add a web down the hand and a honey bee stuck in there because fuck them #honeybees we support #nativepollinators in this house. The web is currently a yellow white, not shaded. The hand is just PISSED.

The new #rose is about done from what I've got on this pattern sheet. Took forever with so many colors switches. #crossstitch

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She is so cute! #wasps are the absolute best. 🥰 She ate as much jelly as she wanted before flying off #bugsky #bribery #nature #wildlife

It's that time of year. To bribe the lost wasps out of my house with jelly. #wasps #bugsky #bribes #insects

New bracelet dropped. St.Petersburg is such a lovely design. #beadwork #artsky #craft #tradition

Just waiting on event approval before publishing to the museums website

No idea what these #fungi are, but they're very small and on my groundsel bush. 🥰 #nature #smol

Happy #WorldWildlifeDay. A friendly reminder that livestock cannot replace native biodiversity, despite what you may have heard.

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Version 2 of a piece I did #dei #disability #immigration #native #Latino #together #eds #fightnotflight

There is a problem with Aradia's meds this evening. She demands to speak to the manager. This isn't her order. It's too cold. Too wet. Completely unacceptable. Atrocious service. She's not paying for this. #cats #petmeds #angrycat

I found a new-to-me #spider! Ariadna bicolor. I wasn't even aware of Segestriidae (tube weavers) before! I was originally convinced he was a Gnaphosidae, little ground running boy, but a very suspicious one. 😅 So very #smol #arachnid #nature #wildlife #tiny

New windows, new siding, new colors. I'm liking the look!

Feb 27th The US Army established Camp Nelson as a fortified supply depot in April 1863. Over the next 3 years. the site evolved into a massive recruitment and training center for United States Colored Troops and a refugee camp for their families. www.nps.gov/cane/index.htm #blackhistorymonth

Niche #meme because of local boy in the #obx that was on the @historychannel.bsky.social while the #native comminuty rejects him and his nonsense. Same in the #archeology community. It's giving Ancient Alient #colonizer vibes #petty #history #lostcolony #redsky

Progress shot of the monster #crossstitch with a new #rose filling in #artsky #peacock

It was suggested I try making onsen #eggs and OMG they're lovely! Easy to make and A+ texture #Japanesefood #cooking #soup #imadethis #joyofcooking

Let's see if I can wear the brace and for how long. #bodybraid #eds #Ehlers-Danlos #zebra #fightnotflight #trashbody

you got it!! A tiny lucanid with the world's most spindly, Tim Burton brand antennae

Heya @altnps.bsky.social Who's gonna stop folks from petting the fluffy murder cows? #wwass #nature #science #redsky #nativesky

Grayson was watching the guys painting the house today #cats #supervisor #getmethemanager

That design is perfection

All hail our #wasp overlords