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. 🐡🎨🪲🪳

New fav wasp, just look at this wasp. Big head, small body, spiky brows, toddle-walk... 10/10 The 6 y/o called this a chibi wasp, I think it's genus Cratomus. Found in my bathroom.

🫐 The setup today at Whitesbog's Blueberry Festival! Today's ink drawing was a potter wasp carrying a mud ball. Warmest thanks to everyone who stopped by today! Happy to see lots of bug enthusiasm in the NJ Pinelands. 🎨🐡🪳🪲

People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it. They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory. Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human. Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.

Next arthropod life cycle figure in the works. Very excited about this one. Weevil rock you! 😉 🎨🪳🪲🎨

🌿Prints are here!🌿 Show off your support for conservation science & the researchers doing this vital work (whilst enjoying cute animal coziness 🥹). I know that filling my home with aggressively pro-nature/science art helps me cope with... *gestures broadly*. Lindzeamays.com/printshop 🎨🐡🧪🪳🪲🌱

🐦‍⬛Choose your fighter!🐦 Vintage style Pinelands birds for a local photographer's brand. 🎨🪶🐡 LindZeamays.com

Little weekend adventure at the shore with my other half. IG: @kurt.lindhult.photo

Happy 3600 #SciArt 💚🐡🪲🪳 This community is fantastic! I'm Lindsay of LindZeamays Illustration, a biologist & illustrator who creates paper figures, logos, & scicomm assets for scientists, in addition to lighthearted/cheeky arthropod designs. "Where no crawly is creepy!" LindZeamays.com

☀️Beast in the mirage🌡️ A summer armadillo, cruising along in the heatwave. My husband loves armadillos. He was crestfallen when we didn't spot any on our recent trip to Georgia. Obviously this called for a drawing to make up for it. 💚 LindZeamays.com 🎨🐡

🐝Thanks Por El Arte Makerspace for hosting this workshop! 🐝We had a great time learning about insect natural history/anatomy, pinning ethically collected bees, & applying our knowledge through illustration. Excited to continue our partnership w/the science illustration workshop series! 🐝🪲🪳🎨🧪

Happy 3600 #SciArt 💚🐡🪲🪳 This community is fantastic! I'm Lindsay of LindZeamays Illustration, a biologist & illustrator who creates paper figures, logos, & scicomm assets for scientists, in addition to lighthearted/cheeky arthropod designs. "Where no crawly is creepy!" LindZeamays.com

📣Thrilled to announce I'll be teaching a pop-up illustration workshop for kids TOMORROW at Por el Arte Artisan Boutique and Makerspace in downtown Mount Holly NJ! 🎨 Looking forward helping make crawlies less creepy through engaging hands-on activities! 💚🐝🐡 Lindzeamays.com

by age 30 you should have one friend for every major animal group to spam. seen a good crab post? forward to your token crab person. bat post for the bat person. cicada post for the cicada person. bear post for the bear person. jellyfish post for the jellyfish person. and so on and so forth.

☀️Beast in the mirage🌡️ A summer armadillo, cruising along in the heatwave. My husband loves armadillos. He was crestfallen when we didn't spot any on our recent trip to Georgia. Obviously this called for a drawing to make up for it. 💚 LindZeamays.com 🎨🐡

Taming the lines. Working on a vintage-style brand package for a local photographer featuring NJ Pinelands flora and fauna. These are some birds in the works that will be featured on an illustrated art market banner. Excited to share the result! 🌲🐡🎨 LindZeamays.com

Use your work to help, use your work to resist, use your work to educate, use your work to raise money for others, use your work to bring joy, and use your work to survive Art is needed