The floating paint tubes are everything
New on my blog: last fall I took photographs of all the different wasp species that were loitering around the eastern redbud trees in my front yard. People driving by gave me strange looks, but it was worth it. 🌿🧪
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Gallery of parasitic wasps from the redbuds in my front yard » Colin Purrington's blog
Now that my eastern redbuds (Cercis canadensis) are pumping out thousands of pods each fall, I thought I’d start photographing the wasps that show up to parasitize the redbud bruchids (Gibbobruchus mi...
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dreaming of springtime 🌿✨
For nature fans in eastern Pennsylvania, there's a fun volunteering opportunity in North Wales on February 20th to remove invasive mantid oothecae. And you get to learn how to ID them, of course.
#InvasiveSpecies #pennsylvania wp.natlands.org/event/mantis...
Mantis Meadow Scavenger Hunt | Natural Lands
Learn to identify invasive mantis egg cases and help remove them from our meadows.
From awhile ago, when I spent an afternoon roaming around a Florida park with a pack of unruly ibises
“Light of Day”, coloured pencil and oil pastel on cotton paper. I used a photo from last year as a reference, but yesterday I saw a different raccoon in the same tree — looking out at a very wintry landscape.
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Caterpillar inspired guy 🐛
This little Black-throated Blue Warbler isn't gonna get used for her original intended purpose so here she is for Warbler Wednesday! 🎨🪶
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So anyway, I've been drawing a lot of goblins.
Hello Insectphile Friends!
I’m giving a casual presentation to a “ladies lunch” group next week about insects. I can talk for days about insects, both scientifically & emotionally, but that’s just me.
Tell me & help me, what should I include about why YOU love insects?
Hugs & Bugs!
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After years of being asked about it, I am finally making an oracle deck. neat!
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A black heron mid-pose in its umbrella/canopy feeding behavior, surrounded by fellow flora and fauna of the Chobe River.
Acrylic on birch, 36 x 36 inches.
#heron #chobe #wildlifeart #sciart #birdart #wetlands #natureart
#acrylicpainting 🪶
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My Favourite Brushes, Tools & Surfaces — Emily Hare
Hi folks! This is going to be a very in depth post about my favourite tools that I use daily for my painting. The most frequent question I seem to get is regarding what brushes I use, then it's…
i know i've been pretty quiet but here's the result of my January: a totally handmade, fully-functional marionette created for a local winter-themed puppet show. she's called the Winter Maw & she'll eat you alive, just like real winter
ok I will stop fiddling with this now
My 73 year old mom with a cane and a fake knee has never voted in her LIFE but was just talking to me about making a sign and standing on the corner by herself to protest ICE
Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵)
Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM.
Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.
Pelican spiders for
#febugary2026, based on photos by Jamie Hall, Hannah Wood, and Rudolph Steenkamp
#InvertebrateParenthood
One of my favorite encounters ever, this lovely Hamataliwa helia mum, and some of her newly-hatched miniatures at her feet 🥹
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I never got around to reposting my Weird Duck Time comic this year! Also, unrelatedly, today is a good day to help out at
standwithminnesota.com"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language.
...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"
Alison Luchs, who has worked at the National Gallery of Art for 47 years, agreed to learn Gen Z slang and make videos because she wanted to raise interest in the museum’s art.
She never expected to slay.
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Call your reps to demand they:
1) Abolish ice (every day!)
2) Vote no whenever the "Make Elections Great Again" Act comes up. It's an atrocious set of restrictions on elections made to make voting harder. Fuck that! Don't let them hear the end of it.
Remember. Squid can't use phones, so we have to.
These tiny sweat bees look very plain from afar, but up close they sparkle
7 y/o singing at top volume this morning:
I love little snakes
I love little snakes
I love little snakes
AND THE BIG SNAKES TOO!!!
ghost reef
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A green tree ant stands guard on a leaf nest. Oecophylla smaragdina. These little guys are everywhere in the humid tropics of southeast Asia and Australia and have a lemony flavor. Cairns.
hey idk who needs to hear this BUT, do not mix epoxy sculpt/magic sculpt, Green Stuff, Milliput etc with your bare hands and use a barrier when sculpting it. tldr; it's a sensitizing agent and you'll be fine till you aren't, and go into anaphylactic shock or just get cancer.
#sculpting #saftey #artPortrait of a Saw-scaled Viper (Echis pyramidum leucogaster), which inhabits humid microhabitats within otherwise arid and rocky areas in Morocco. This mainly nocturnal snake feeds on scorpions, small mammals, and other reptiles.
#wildlife #snakes #macrophotographySome fun snowflakes from the
#winterstorm today.
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Une petite promenade à la campagne.
Minnesota, my home, is carrying a heavy burden right now.
Being kind is not being weak. The strength to care for others, to love and protect our neighbors, to be a shield and not a sword, to be warmth in the cold is true Minnesota nice.
(Photo by local photographer Ricky Roman, MN)
Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in.
Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.
I don’t really know where the whole Wine Mom thing comes from, but maybe let’s retire it if it’s just become a dismissive way to talk about adult women who might have children and sometimes want to enjoy things. That’s. That’s a regular person.
Microraptor. Nine years old and still one of my favourite paintings I have ever made.
#sciartFound pics of a wee (5 mm.) strange bug from last July in Arizona that I'd forgotten about. I think it's a planthopper nymph (Mebracidae?). The fringed lobes around the abdomen look almost exactly like those on an owlfly larvae (which this definitely isn't). Bugs is weird, bugs is cool. 🐙🌿
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Quality performance art. Easy to parse, thematically relevant, kinda gross. Love it.
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💩🥬this is why I can't pass up little turds on leaves - they could be frass mimics! 😰
mating Exema sp "warty leaf beetles", Oklahoma
Publilia reticulata treehopper, OK
Bolbonota sp treehoppers, Costa Rica
Beata sp jumping spider, Peru
For
@msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
Spent the day illustrating this St. Cecelia apple for a commission.
#Apples are some of the toughest things to
#illustrate, I struggle with the waxy shine and depth of colour. This time its gone ok.
And now....I can eat them!
Cartoonists, I’d love to hear your stories! For local resources, please check out
@defend612.bsky.social
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