This lovely lady flew past my head and landed on a metal fence post which she tried to slurp. Gave me time to get right into her business to snap her delightfully frosted ventral details 🔬

I found this very fun little guy today. It’s a speckled sharpshooter. Such a cool friend!!! #insects

Friends, Your input, pls? Our local county parks is having an Autumn Photo event. I’m definitely submitting this Aspen Quote Post, but I want to submit a skipper pic, too (bc bugs). The purple alfalfa or yellow rabbitbrush pic but titled “Skipper’s Last Sip.” Your thoughts?

This lovely lady flew past my head and landed on a metal fence post which she tried to slurp. Gave me time to get right into her business to snap her delightfully frosted ventral details 🔬

It's live! ChromaMagic 3 for Mac and iOS is out there. Always nervewracking this bit but I am extremely pleased with this. Many thanks to all involved especially James Cuff, Paul Foxton, and my lovely testers. #chromamagic chromamagic.com #artiststools #artistscolortools #artistsapp #munsell

If you're struggling to tell your Agallia consobrina from your Agallia venosa, check the pronotum! #Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55

Enjoyed a photo session with this glamorous ghost crab this morning #photography

Rove beetles are fierce hunters. This one was in a long battle with a large prey: a dung beetle. #insects #invertebrates #beetles #coleoptera

Working on an octopus coloring book 🐙🐡🐋🦑

happy hunting lil'guy

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

I saw someone post recently that they were learning macro and did a 100+ frame focus stack and I legit don't understand why anyone would do that? This assassin bug is a 6 frame stack to get that front leg in focus (it juts out toward the camera). Spiny Assassin Bug (Sinea spinipes) PA

#Zavacephale. A very pretty new pachycephalosaur from early Cretaceous Mongolia. 🥰

If #spiders were supermodels..........perfecting that middle distance look A/W 2025 ...Attulus Saltator..... @britishspiders.bsky.social

A sweat bee busy looking for snacks. The flower is an aster and the center of the flower contains lots of small florets that produce pollen and nectar. Asters are a wonderful fall food source for lots of insects. #inverts (Augochlora sp.) PA

Incredible sculpture outside my hotel in Espoo, Finland (Fragmented Circle, Jeppe Hein, high-polished stainless steel and aluminum, 2018). Even more effective in person, brought me up short.

This makes me incredibly proud 😎 thanks @inaturalist.bsky.social

Amidst a crazy time, the cutest arthropod I've ever found in my garden, a candy striped leafhopper (Graphocephala coccinea). Is he eating my cilantro? 🌱 Yes. Will I stop him? No 🥰

This little fella needs a name, suggestions anyone?? 🖤 You can come meet him at my upcoming show in Chicago, and if you are THE ONE who just can’t resist his sweet face, he is available for adoption! 😉 #seaturtle #Art #sculpture #Oddities #BoneArt #SkullArt #VultureCulture #nature #jessicajoslin

Alert: Buffalo treehopper in the yard, I repeat, BUFFALO TREEHOPPER IN THE YARD 🚨 (Stictocephala bisonia on joe pye weed)

Mama Oak Treehopper with her brood. The kids are growing fast! They do like being on the bottom of the branch, it's probably much safer for them there. (Platycotis vittata) PA

She is not to be trifled with #invertebrate #wip

Little leafhopper on a tiny canvas!!

Say ahhhh 😳

work in progress for my show false refuge, opening this friday at Nucleus Portland

Inspiration - sky & heron☁️ #bird #birdart #illustration #digitalart #art #animalart #decorative #originalart #birdwatching

View from an aphid’s butt 😅 #invertebrate

Emotional support crab calming me with his gentle pinch 🦀

A gorgon 😌 done in 3 sessions 🙏

A gathering at the big old gnarly tree

Get in, losers. We're posting John Berkey spaceships.

Remains of the Prey 😳 Gravid female mantis (Tenodera sinensis) standing over the leftovers of the monarch (Danaus plexippus) she just ate

Biology Department xkcd.com/3140/

I love jumping spiders so much 😍

Have you ever wanted to just be a worm for a day? Then good news because we're announcing a new game! wirm is coming SOON! 🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🍎 Wishlist it on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/1934870/...

Predator or prey? 🤔 Bit of fun while I pack up finished pieces…

#SciArtSeptember Day 8: niche • A stem-cell niche is a microenvironment where stem cells are found. Here's my autumnal mitosis sampler of a human reproductive cell (2024). #SciArt #embroidery

Day 9 #SciArtSeptember prompt is vanishing. This #linocut print rusty-patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) is handprinted on Japanese white and yellow papers. The rusty-patched bumble is a pollinator native to North America and was common here in Ontario as recently as the 1980s. 🐡🧪 #printmaking 🧵

Take a break today and explore the SciArt Feed during #SciArtSeptember. No gen AI, no NFTs. The intersection of art + science.

A 12-year effort by entomologists in Iowa solves mysteries about an elusive planthopper, Fitchiella robertsonii, including key host plants and environments. The 219 specimens they caught are 90% of those ever collected by scientists, marking a leap forward for potential conservation of the species.

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A sharp-tailed bee visits the goldenrod. They parasitize leaf-cutter bees nests. Many solitary bees have nest parasites, often other bees species. Their young consume the provisions gathered by their hosts.

Jagged ambush bug! Tiny juvenile Phymata pennsylvanica on goldenrod. Getting ready to ambush something 5 times its size…😳 I love their dino-doggy faces and raptorial forelegs, fantastically unique #invertebrate

Lord Milkweed surveying his domain 🧡🖤 Oncopeltus fasciatus male, large milkweed bug, on milkweed #invertebrate

This is TOO big of insect

Four-banded Stink Bug Wasp continues in our garden on the goldenrod. A solitary species, this is an extreme xanthic (yellow) form, not often seen.

Pontia sp. butterfly, one of the Checkered Whites. They're common, beautiful insects. The subtle greenish yellow on the wings is gorgeous, and I especially love the pale aqua-blue eye. This one let me get fairly close while it sunned itself on a rock. (Montana) 🐙🌿

Mitosis is beautiful in watercolor 🧪🐡🎨 artologica.etsy.com/listing/4350...

Bought this print at Wonderfest. Carrhotus xanthogramma. Good but... Missing a pair of eyes. Ventral side inaccurate. Been working on her. #scalemodels #spiders #sciart