They cannot terrorize us into submission. We will protect our vibrant communities. We will fight back. Abolish ICE! 🐡🪳🪲🎨

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Its true

Penstemon Inflorescence and Pollen Wasps. (2026) Watercolor and gouache on 8x10" cotton paper. Commissioned work. It was a delight to paint this delicate botanical piece as a gift for a client’s grad school supervisor. 🧪🪲🪳🎨🌱🌸 Where no crawly is creepy! LindZeamays Illustration Lindzeamays.com

✨New science illustration✨ Visualizing three experimental approaches to assess how leaf volatiles influence spotted-wing Drosophila (SWD) attraction to blueberry fruit. (Details in thread below) *** Where no crawly is creepy! LindZeamays Illustration Lindzeamays.com *** 🐡🪳🪲🌱🧪🎨

✨Megarhyssa macrurus✨ Finished drawing using a hybrid traditional and digital technique. This iconic giant parasitoid wasp has the longest ovipositor of all insects! 🎨🪳🪲🧪🐡 Where no crawly is creepy! LindZeamays Illustration Lindzeamays.com

🪰Sketch of a Eutrichotid fly🪰 Decided to add some color to a loose little ink drawing in the travel sketchbook. Flies look so comical with their cute space cadet faces and short aristate antennae. 🎨🪲🪳🐡

Philly Nature Journaling Club is back up and running this month! Have you been curious about observing and recording nature with us? Come check it out! Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

✨#artvsartist 2025✨ This one’s late. I needed some time to reflect on where I fit in this increasingly troubling world & what the future holds for science and science-adjacent creators. A thread of reflection: 👇 🐡🎨🪳🪲🧪🌱

✨New Original work!✨ Augochlorine sweat bee pollinating Southern frog fruit. Acrylic on 8x10 canvas board. Available! Prints coming soon on my website! ~~~~~~ Where no crawly is creepy! LindZeamays Illustration Lindzeamays.com 🐡🎨🪳🪲🐝 #bsnm #invertefest

Go follow my friend Sarah, who creates stunning realistic nature art 😍💚

Merry Grubmas! 🎄😍

'Life in the Undergrowth' soft cotton tees are available in my printshop! There truly isn't enough apparel featuring soil arthropods, so we're trying to fix that! ‼️For shipping in US, Dec 11 is the last day to order for pre-Christmas delivery. Thanks 💚 www.lindzeamays.com/printshop/p/... 🪲🪳🎨🐡

🎄Deck the halls with bugs!🎄 My new Hercules beetle ornaments are all painted for the Medford Dickens Fest this Saturday! 🛍️Only 3 available at the market so grab them while you can! ****** Where no crawly is creepy! LindZeamays Illustration Lindzeamays.com 🪲🪳🎨🐡

My last market of the year! Medford Dickens Fest is happening this Saturday! Remember to shop small this year! Not only do you score high quality art, but you keep artisans' passions afloat. Can't make it? Check out my online shop for more funky bug decor: Lindzeamays.com/printshop 🐡🪳🪲🎨 #bsnm

#InverteFest season is almost here, which means it's time to submit your bug & slug art! The form closes at 100 entries. Find more info, download past art book, and submit here: invertefest.com/#artbook

Quick ~1 hr colored pencil sketch of a Megarhyssa wasp. The queen of parasitoids. 💚 🐡🎨🪲🪳🌿

🌿Life in the Undergrowth🌿 Hand-drawn by me in Procreate. Now available on merch in my print shop! Lindzeamays.com/printshop Free US shipping on $30+ w/ coupon code LOVEBUGS30 I appreciate your support for a small time creator. 💚 ~~~ Where no crawly is creepy! Lindzeamays Illustration 🐡🪳🪲🎨🌿

🌿Life in the Undergrowth🌿 My new spooky autumn design that celebrates the tiny overlooked organisms who live amongst the soil, moss, and mushrooms. Prints, soft unisex tees, & more at: LindZeamays.com/printshop ~~~ Where no crawly is creepy! Lindzeamays Illustration Lindzeamays.com ~~~ 🐡🪳🪲🎨🌿

The Art of Transition Series: Monarch Butterfly (2025). Acrylic on canvas, 16x20". ~~~~~~ Where no crawly is creepy! LindZeamays Illustration LindZeamays.com ~~~~~~ 🎨🐡🪳🪲🦋

The Art of Transition Series: Cicada. (2025) Acrylic on canvas, 16x20". ~~~~~~ Where no crawly is creepy! LindZeamays Illustration LindZeamays.com ~~~~~~ 🪲🪳🐡🎨

✨Thirteen✨ Favorite Doctor + favorite Doctor Who Quote.🎨 I adored Jodie Whittaker's portrayal of the Doctor. The bright color palette, creative whimsy, the social awkwardness, caring deeply for her companions despite not always being able to express it. Y'all, I felt seen with this one. 🥹💚

Illustration of a jagged ambush bug (Phymata americana) 🪲 - #scientificillustration #zoology #biology #insect #animal #boardgame #insectarium #menagerie #cardgameart #sciart #bug #autumn

Who doesnt love hanging out in a cemetery during spooky season?! Do some field sketching of how all the earth is dying back in beautiful ways

Join the Philly Nature Journaling Club on 10/11/25 (10am-12pm) at the Laurel Hill Cemetery! I will be guest hosting for @megstampede.bsky.social during the spookiest month of the year! (Points if you show up in costume) 🎃👻🪦 Sign up here (it's free!): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #SciArt 🎨🦋🪲🪳🐡

These cuddling cuties are ready to journey to their new home! I adored painting this uniquely personal piece for some lovely iNaturalist hobbyists and fellow nature nerds. 🥹💚🏳️‍🌈 ~~~~~~ Where no crawly is creepy LindZeamays Illustration LindZeamays.com ~~~~~~ #inverts 🐡🪳🪲🎨

Cuddling Ambush Bugs on a Purple Coneflower. (2025) Watercolor and gouache. 8x10" This might be my cutest commission yet. 🏳️‍🌈 ****** Where no crawly is creepy LindZeamays Illustration LindZeamays.com ****** #inverts 🪲🪳🎨🐡

No students showed up for my afterschool art class today, so we're making the most of it with this pollinating Halictid. 🎨 I have an acute aversion to the color orange (especially living in the US right now 🫠) but the underpainting method has been helping brighten midtones/improve realism. 🪳🪲🐡

I am fan-girling the artistry of ‪@lindzeamays.bsky.social‬

✨New Science illustration✨ Synchronized lifecycle of plum curculio and its host plant, blueberry. 1 of 2 illustrated figs for a book chapter commissioned by Rutgers entomologist Dr. Cesar Rodriguez-Saona. *** Where no crawly is creepy! LindZeamays Illustration lindzeamays.com 🪲🪳🎨🐡🧪 #invertefest

A wonderful #InverteFest visitor! Giant Ichneumon Wasp 🌿

Final stretch on this Lepidopteran addition to my "Art of Transition" series. Will we finish this before my exhibition in September? Trying my darndest! 💚 #SciArt #bugsky 🎨

Never in distress. Don't let their daintiness fool you. Damselflies are voracious predators just like their Odonate relatives, dragonflies. Mosquitoes beware! ✨Prints available on my website! ✨Always human-made. No AI. LindZeamays.com 🐡🎨🪳🪲🌱

Common blue violet. (2025) Watercolor. 8 x 10 in. 🪻 Prints now available! LindZeamays.com/printshop 🐡🎨🪳🪲🌱

Never in distress. Don't let their daintiness fool you. Damselflies are voracious predators just like their Odonate relatives, dragonflies. Mosquitoes beware! ✨Prints available on my website! ✨Always human-made. No AI. LindZeamays.com 🐡🎨🪳🪲🌱

Common blue violet. (2025) Watercolor. 8 x 10 in. 🪻 Prints now available! LindZeamays.com/printshop 🐡🎨🪳🪲🌱

Thought the bugskies might appreciate: The freezer masoleum where I lay to rest found-dead insect friends while they await pinning & second lives in my collection. 🪲🪳

The fruits of accomplishment are temporary and contingent on effort, but hope is eternal and costs nothing. Biology favors easy solutions. Your brain wants to be in a perpetual state of hope, so the satisfaction of accomplishment can never last too long. You have to keep moving at all costs.

Entry from yesterday's tranquil @phillynaturejournaling session in the Azalea garden and hosted by @megstampede.bsky.social 🎨💚 Highly recommend plopping down in the middle of a garden and watching the floral visitors for a few hours. 🪳🪲🐝🌱🐡

This is how they paint murals, right? 🎨Philly day🎨

Birthday week highlights! Never grow out of being an unapologetic bug dork. ✨ 🪳🪲🐝

A tiny flying Hercules beetle stamp carved today for my "Intro to Printmaking for Kids" workshop. I learned that few elementary-aged kids have the patience to sit and focus on carving even a tiny stamp. Now I'm thinking maybe I was a weird kid. 😆 🎨🪳🪲🐡

Latest print: A blueberry branch! 🫐 Printing these on wooden bookmarks for my upcoming markets. That totals 4 printed bookmark designs in the collection! I've made two plant designs in a row, which means an insect will certainly be next on the docket. Maybe a beetle? 🎨🪲🪳🐡🌱

This grasshopper illustration was commissioned for a logo #SciArt #insect #entomology

🐝Something a bit different for me - resin art! There were a few bees leftover from my insect illustration workshop so I used them in this "bio-mandala" suncatcher to commemorate a great day with some totally awesome humans. 🪳🪲🐡🎨

🦋Monarchs on Milkweed (2025). Watercolor and gouache. It was an honor to illustrate this naturalist scene as a special birthday gift for a friend. 💚 Prints available at LindZeamays.com/printshop 🎨🪲🪳🐡🦋

Last night was the first open studio "Ladies Night" where local women get together weekly to create and connect at Por El Arte Makerspace in downtown Mount Holly, NJ. Gave me an excuse to start my first big bug painting in awhile! Super grateful to be a part of this blossoming community 💚 🎨🐡🪲🪳

🦋Monarchs on Milkweed (2025). Watercolor and gouache. It was an honor to illustrate this naturalist scene as a special birthday gift for a friend. 💚 Prints available at LindZeamays.com/printshop 🎨🪲🪳🐡🦋

Yesterday's batch of weird little guys. Bun included. 😂 All plum curculio life stages complete. Onward to the accompanying blueberry stages. 🐡🎨🪲🪳