It's unfortunate that I have to contend with so many companies just swiping my photos for their marketing material without permission or payment. But this is the absolute weirdest: an insect trafficking company has copied my self-portait from a few years back in Ecuador, and uses it on their "Our Story" page, as if I'm the dude out there poaching the ants for them.
update: got in touch with someone in their network, working on a resolution.
Howdy! New to this whole Mastodon thing (I'm not even sure what instance I should be on) but eager. Name's Bug — I'm a queer master's student in an entomology lab, passionate about scientific outreach.
When I’m not staring at insects, I spend my time creating zines, comics, other art, and playing D&D. I want to learn how to make video games. Let’s connect if you think little critters are cool!
#introductions #pixelart #zines #entomology #academia #comics #queer #insects
Invaders from underground are coming in cicada-geddon. It’s the biggest bug emergence for North America in centuries.
AP reports: "Crawling out from underground every 13 or 17 years, with a collective song as loud as jet engines, the periodical cicadas are nature’s kings of the calendar."
American naturalist, illustrator and writer Anna Botsford Comstock was born #OTD in 1854.
The first female professor at Cornell University, who wrote The Handbook of Nature Study (1911). She is known for illustrating entomological text books with her husband, John Henry Comstock including their first joint effort, The Manual for the Study of Insects (1885).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Botsford_Comstock
Books by Anna Botsford Comstock at BHL:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181015044520/https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search?searchTerm=Anna+Botsford+Comstock#/titles
German entomologist, naturalist and scientific illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian was born #OTD in 1647.
She was among the first naturalists to observe and document the metamorphosis of insects, particularly butterflies and moths. Merian's most famous works include "Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium" (Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname) and "The Caterpillars' Marvelous Transformation and Strange Floral Food."
