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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

✨Thrilled to finally share the exhibit that I've had the honor of working on at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel @acadnatsci.bsky.social : "Botany of Nations: Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery" 🪳🪲🌱🐡🎨

New exhibit collaboration: Botany of Nations. The artist paints a 3D printed plant sculpture of Bitterroot.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Digitally Illustrated asset library of true bugs to add whimsy to a research presentation about computer "bugs." Commission for Tabby. Thank you for the trust! ~~~~~~ Where no crawly is creepy! LindZeamays Illustration Lindzeamays.com ~~~~~~ Proudly human-made. No 🚫AI. 🪲🪳🐡🧪 🌱🎨

Digitally Illustrated layout of 5 representative species of true bugs (Order: Hemiptera) on a textured paper like background. 4 of 5 species are a nymph-adult set.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

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

Digital comic style painting of Sphex pensylvanicus bursting through a frame of ice.

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Its true

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

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

Framed watercolor and gouache botanical painting of a Penstemon inflorescence pollinated by pollen wasps.

Watercolor and gouache botanical illustration of a Penstemon inflorescence being pollinated by pollen wasps.

Closeup of a watercolor and gouache illustration of a pollen wasp and Penstemon blooms.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

✨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 *** 🐡🪳🪲🌱🧪🎨

Science illustration depicting three experimental assays used to determine the role of leaf volatiles in the attraction of Spotted-wing Drosophila to blueberry fruit.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

✨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

Megarhyssa macrurus science illustration using both traditional colored pencil and digital mediums.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

🪰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. 🎨🪲🪳🐡

Ink and colored pencil sketch of a Eutrichotid fly on a small travel sketchbook page.

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Meg Lemieur Art @megstampede.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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...

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

✨#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: 👇 🐡🎨🪳🪲🧪🌱

Lindsay Lindhult 's Art vs. Artist post of 2025. This layout shows an image of the artist beside the numbers 2025. The rest of the layout shows a collection of their favorite projects over the past year.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

✨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

The artist, LindZeamays, holds up their framed acrylic painting of a green iridescent Augochlorine sweat bee pollinating a southern frog fruit influorescence.

Acrylic painting of a green iridescent Augochlorine sweat bee pollinating a southern frog fruit influorescence.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

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

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

'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/... 🪲🪳🎨🐡

Artist holding up a soft cotton tee in vintage black color featuring their 'Life in the Undergrowth' design.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🎄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 🪲🪳🎨🐡

Colorful Hercules beetles painted on flat wooden ornaments

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

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

Flyer for LindZeamays Illustration who is vending at the Medford Dickens festival on December 6 from 4:30-9PM at Main Street Medford NJ.

Flyer showing different designs and products created by arthropod artist LindZeamays Illustration. Text says "Holiday gifts with an arthropod twist!"

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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

#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

announcement image that says
Have bug & slug art? Submit to #InverteFest Digital Art Book. Publishing every April, August, December.

Download previous editions & find the submission link at InverteFest.com/#Artbook

the image is decorated with artwork of various animals from various artists, featuring insects, slugs, and so on.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

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

Colored pencil sketch of a Megarhyssa parasitoid wasp inserting her ovipositor into the bark of a tree.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

🌿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 🐡🪳🪲🎨🌿

Poster advertising a science illustration featuring hand drawn undergrowth organisms in a monochrome layout shaped like a heart.

Poster advertising prints and stickers of a science illustration with hand drawn undergrowth organisms in a monochrome layout shaped like a heart.

Poster advertising comfy unisex tees featuring an original science illustration with hand drawn undergrowth organisms in a monochrome layout shaped like a heart.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

🌿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 ~~~ 🐡🪳🪲🎨🌿

Digital drawing of various undergrowth organisms in a monochrome layout shaped like a heart.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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

Acrylic painting featuring a monarch butterfly emerging from their chrysalis.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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

Acrylic painting featuring a green and yellow cicada emerging from a red and orange molt.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

✨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. 🥹💚

Digital painting of the 13th doctor and TARDIS from the BBC's Doctor Who series alongside her quote "Whole worlds pivot on acts of imagination."

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Vicent Gisbert Cardona @vigiscar.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

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

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Meg Lemieur Art @megstampede.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

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 🎨🦋🪲🪳🐡

Image of Laurel Hill Cemetery advertising October's meetup location for Philly nature journaling club.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

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 🐡🪳🪲🎨

Smiling artist holds a finished and framed watercolor and gouache painting featuring two cuddling ambush bugs holding a progress pride flag on a purple coneflower.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

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 🪲🪳🎨🐡

Watercolor and gouache painting of two ambush bugs cuddling on a purple Coneflower while proudly displaying a progress pride flag.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

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. 🪳🪲🐡

Early stages of an acrylic painting of a Halictid bee.

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Caroline S. Chaboo @cschaboo.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

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

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

✨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

Illustrated science illustration of a plum curculio weevil lifecycle synchronized with their host plant, blueberry.

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Rebecca Gelernter @nearbirdstudios.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

A wonderful #InverteFest visitor! Giant Ichneumon Wasp 🌿

A huge, gangly wasp ovipositing in a dead beech tree. Her abdomen is long, and her ovipositor is much longer. It loops from the end of her abdomen over her back, then enters the tree trunk perpendicularly.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

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 🎨

Artist LindZeamays uses acrylics to paint a stylized monarch butterfly emerging from a chrysalis.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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 🐡🎨🪳🪲🌱

Digital painting of a Damselfly face looking defiantly at the viewer. Another damselfly flies beside the words "Damsel in Defiance"

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

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

Watercolor painting of a common violet flower

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

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. 🪲🪳

Old jewelry box repurposed as an insect masoleum. Text says "rest in chitin"

All the deceased insects I've found while on midday runs this summer.

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Dark Allie @zoologicallie.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

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.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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. 🪳🪲🐝🌱🐡

Nature journaling entry featuring a purple cone flower, wood carder bee, and downy skullcap.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

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

"Feeling cute, might hunt some crickets later" Husband gifted me these incredible digger wasp-like antennae and glasses.

Achieved a "snow white" moment with a cicada killer wasp.

Striking a pose during a disco tile arcade game.

Seeing Rachael and Vilray in the park with husband.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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. 😆 🎨🪳🪲🐡

Hand carved stamp of a Hercules beetle in flight.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

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? 🎨🪲🪳🐡🌱

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Javier Lazaro - scientific illustration @lazaroillustration.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

🐝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. 🪳🪲🐡🎨

Mandala style resin suncatcher with real preserved honeybees

Mandala style suncatcher in a cozy townhome window.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

🦋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 🎨🪲🪳🐡🦋

Watercolor and gouache painting of "Monarchs on Milkweed".

LindZeamays the artist holding the framed 8x10 original painting of Monarchs on Milkweed while sitting in a tree.

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Lindsay Lindhult, PhD | Science Illustrator & Arthropod Artist @lindzeamays.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

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 💚 🎨🐡🪲🪳

LindZeamays paints a molting cicada while studio co-owner Jeanette crafts jewelry.

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