# invertebutt sciart

This old apple tree next to our house is in full bloom and quite the popular spot for bees, wasps, and flies right now.

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2020-04-12

And a couple more photos because I think these are just beautiful Scyphozoans.

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2020-04-12

Went out looking for inverts for yesterday and didn't get much, but the weather wasn't great. I'll have to try again today! For now, here's a rough little cicada painting, plus a recently-molted cicada I found in American Samoa a couple years ago.

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2020-04-12


For the Invertebrate Fest I am sharing this crab that I made drawing and painting in photoshop from scratch during an online illustration course last year. First time ever :) Calappa convexa

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2020-04-11

Another set of paintings to kick off bumble bees! B. bifarius, B. vosnesenskii, and B. melanopygus (plus bonus horizontal vos), a handful of Sierra Nevada meadow species.

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2020-04-11

For - one of my drawings about Leucochloridium paradoxum which kinda went viral earlier this year when SOMEONE ELSE POSTED IT WITHOUT CREDIT because that's how this website works
https://t.co/dRC4USQUIC

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2019-12-26

Some more of my for - Deep Sea edition:
- Pompeii Worms
- Carnivorous Killer Sponge
- Vampire Squid

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2019-12-24

Some more of my for - Mollusc edition:
- The Lost Snail
- Shipworms
- Elysia, the green sea slugs

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2019-12-24

For one of my favorite comics from last year.
It was by a lecture from Dr Daniel Kronauer, for whom said buttbeetle is named!

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2019-12-24

What some sea anemones look like when their tank is drained for cleaning

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2019-09-30